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And then when the long awaited day finally arrives, you arrive at MTS Centre only to learn Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel aren playing, not because they injured or ill because they "tired."
Well, isn that precious.
If that sounds outrageous, welcome to the world NBA fans populate, where the practice of "resting" star players during the regular season has become so ubiquitous that the league commissioner last week was finally compelled by fan outrage to issue a memo threatening "significant penalties" in the future for teams who sit players without adequate notice and for no discernible good reason.
And, no "tired" is not a good reason.
If you earning millions of dollars to play a children game and you find yourself too tired to complete the assigned schedule, you don need a day off you need to go to bed earlier, get into better shape or find yourself a less taxing occupation.
Professional team sports is a marathon; you want a sprint? Take up the 100 metres.
You want to know why Winnipeg Jets centre Mark Scheifele is, for the second straight year, playing his very best and most productive hockey after Feb. 1? Because he a workout and nutrition fiend 12 months a year, and so Scheifele has a gear late in the season that a lot of other players do not.
Scheifele doesn take games off late in the season to "rest" he uses them to exploit his advantage to maximum effect. Clippers.
That incident followed on the heels of a March 11 road game in which the Golden State Warriors rested Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala which is to say the best parts of their team against the San Antonio Spurs.
NBA coaches will tell you that it all just good player management to sit your stars late in the regular season and rest them for the playoffs, particularly if your team has already locked down playoff positions as the Warriors and Cavs have done.
That absurd, of course. The NBA playoffs van cleef ans arpels Pendant replica stretch well into June, just like the NHL and the idea that Steph Curry taking a day off on March 11 is somehow going to give him that little extra he needs months later is patently stupid.
No, what this is really about is the way the coddled multimillionaires who are this continent professional athletes are increasingly wagging the dog. It the star players, not the head coaches, who increasingly call the shots, and if Lebron wants a day off, he gets one, even if it serves as a giant middle finger to the fans who show up every night no rest for them, or their wallets to pay James ridiculously bloated salary.
ABC basketball commentator and former NBA head coach Jeff Van Gundy summed it up perfectly during his call of that now notorious Cavs Clippers game: "If this was any other business, it would be a prosecutable offence this type of bait and switch manoeuvre that the NBA allows its teams to pull."
It revealing that these "rest" days basketball coaches today say are so necessary were almost unheard of even a few years ago. Do you remember all the "rest" days Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Julius Erving and Michael Jordan took off?
Yeah, me neither. I guess they must have just had more comfortable mattresses back in the day.
And then there the fact that "rest" days are virtually unheard of in the NHL, which plays an 82 game regular season schedule, just like the NBA.
Yes, basketball is a physical sport, but there no bodychecking or stickwork or frozen pieces of rubber travelling at 180 km/h in a basketball game. And yet somehow hockey players manage to endure all that and still grind through a season without taking a day off to rest the exception being goaltenders, who play the full 60 minutes.
Remember that playoff game back in 2013 when Boston Bruins forward Greg Campbell finished a penalty killing shift despite a broken leg? Steph Curry needs a rest in early March.
Jonas Siegel of the Canadian Press shopped the issue around the NHL late last week to see if hockey players thought the day might come that they, too, take off games just to "rest." Their answers warmed my heart.
"I just think hockey a different kind of animal where I don think guys would want to do it," Montreal Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty told Siegel. "Guys are stubborn enough to probably fight it if they were asked and that how I would see that going down."
Leafs forward Nazem Kadri was even more succinct.
"Never," he said.
There a reason hockey is Canada game; we show up in this country, every day, no matter what. It the only way we survived in this climate.
Look, I on record in these pages that I think basketball is a deeply flawed sport the rims are too low, the players are too high and the increasingly ubiquitous three pointer from long range has stripped away the value of playmaking and teamwork and replaced it with a stupid human trick as van cleef & arpels clover necklace fake the new foundation of the game.
Any team sport in which you regularly achieve your stated scoring objective 50 times a game is inherently dumb; any sport in which you can now achieve that objective and get rewarded with extra points by simply launching bombs from 30 feet is just boring.
And then when the long awaited day finally arrives, you arrive at MTS Centre only to learn Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Phil Kessel aren playing, not because they injured or ill because they "tired."
Well, isn that precious.
If that sounds outrageous, welcome to the world NBA fans populate, where the practice of "resting" star players during the regular season has become so ubiquitous that the league commissioner last week was finally compelled by fan outrage to issue a memo threatening "significant penalties" in the future for teams who sit players without adequate notice and for no discernible good reason.
And, no "tired" is not a good reason.
If you earning millions of dollars to play a children game and you find yourself too tired to complete the assigned schedule, you don need a day off you need to go to bed earlier, get into better shape or find yourself a less taxing occupation.
Professional team sports is a marathon; you want a sprint? Take up the 100 metres.
You want to know why Winnipeg Jets centre Mark Scheifele is, for the second straight year, playing his very best and most productive hockey after Feb. 1? Because he a workout and nutrition fiend 12 months a year, and so Scheifele has a gear late in the season that a lot of other players do not.
Scheifele doesn take games off late in the season to "rest" he uses them to exploit his advantage to maximum effect. Clippers.
That incident followed on the heels of a March 11 road game in which the Golden State Warriors rested Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Klay Thompson and Andre Iguodala which is to say the best parts of their team against the San Antonio Spurs.
NBA coaches will tell you that it all just good player management to sit your stars late in the regular season and rest them for the playoffs, particularly if your team has already locked down playoff positions as the Warriors and Cavs have done.
That absurd, of course. The NBA playoffs van cleef ans arpels Pendant replica stretch well into June, just like the NHL and the idea that Steph Curry taking a day off on March 11 is somehow going to give him that little extra he needs months later is patently stupid.
No, what this is really about is the way the coddled multimillionaires who are this continent professional athletes are increasingly wagging the dog. It the star players, not the head coaches, who increasingly call the shots, and if Lebron wants a day off, he gets one, even if it serves as a giant middle finger to the fans who show up every night no rest for them, or their wallets to pay James ridiculously bloated salary.
ABC basketball commentator and former NBA head coach Jeff Van Gundy summed it up perfectly during his call of that now notorious Cavs Clippers game: "If this was any other business, it would be a prosecutable offence this type of bait and switch manoeuvre that the NBA allows its teams to pull."
It revealing that these "rest" days basketball coaches today say are so necessary were almost unheard of even a few years ago. Do you remember all the "rest" days Magic Johnson and Larry Bird and Julius Erving and Michael Jordan took off?
Yeah, me neither. I guess they must have just had more comfortable mattresses back in the day.
And then there the fact that "rest" days are virtually unheard of in the NHL, which plays an 82 game regular season schedule, just like the NBA.
Yes, basketball is a physical sport, but there no bodychecking or stickwork or frozen pieces of rubber travelling at 180 km/h in a basketball game. And yet somehow hockey players manage to endure all that and still grind through a season without taking a day off to rest the exception being goaltenders, who play the full 60 minutes.
Remember that playoff game back in 2013 when Boston Bruins forward Greg Campbell finished a penalty killing shift despite a broken leg? Steph Curry needs a rest in early March.
Jonas Siegel of the Canadian Press shopped the issue around the NHL late last week to see if hockey players thought the day might come that they, too, take off games just to "rest." Their answers warmed my heart.
"I just think hockey a different kind of animal where I don think guys would want to do it," Montreal Canadiens captain Max Pacioretty told Siegel. "Guys are stubborn enough to probably fight it if they were asked and that how I would see that going down."
Leafs forward Nazem Kadri was even more succinct.
"Never," he said.
There a reason hockey is Canada game; we show up in this country, every day, no matter what. It the only way we survived in this climate.
Look, I on record in these pages that I think basketball is a deeply flawed sport the rims are too low, the players are too high and the increasingly ubiquitous three pointer from long range has stripped away the value of playmaking and teamwork and replaced it with a stupid human trick as van cleef & arpels clover necklace fake the new foundation of the game.
Any team sport in which you regularly achieve your stated scoring objective 50 times a game is inherently dumb; any sport in which you can now achieve that objective and get rewarded with extra points by simply launching bombs from 30 feet is just boring.
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