Fred Katz

You know what I think is the easiest thing for the NBA to do?

Enforce the rules they already have.

Section D of the play-in term, section D, I'm gonna read it right now, all right?

Player partition policy, participation policy, which the league passed for the 23-24 season, which we've heard so much about.

You can't rest stars in nationally televised games, all that stuff.

Section D, it's like everyone forgot about Section D, entitled Shutdowns.

Teams must refrain from any long-term shutdown or near shutdown whereby a star player ceases participating in games or begins to play a materially reduced role in circumstances affecting the integrity of the game.

That is phrased intentionally ambiguously.

That is phrased in a way to where it does not say shuts them down for the entire season.

It does not say shuts guys down for particular games, but minimizes their minutes in games.

It appears it appears it seems so.

And the reason why that that's there.

I mean, the inspiration for that was because of what the Thunder did with Al Horford.

where a lot of people had a visceral reaction to that happening.

And now that kind of stuff is happening all over the league.

And it doesn't say that a shutdown has to be for the entire season.

But the league talks about how they are able to investigate with an independent doctor, check out a guy's medicals, check out a guy's health.

And then they're able to see if a rest situation is real or rest situation is not real.

See if a team lied on the injury report or didn't lie on the injury report.

We see teams lying about stuff on injury reports