Jim Rome

You could have five or six days off, but I want to see a movie for the first time in two years, as opposed to going to coach a bunch of guys who aren't.

going to listen to you you know what i really would have enjoyed and i thought popovich was going to do this stan and he's exactly the coach who would have done this and i feel like he's got the players who would have signed off on him doing it i thought that popovich was going to put parker and duncan out there for like one possession to just actually put them out there and then pull them right out and and then just play all the thunder players like just as a joke duncan didn't play much

Much more than one possession.

I looked at the box score.

He played, what, six minutes?

He should have set up like cots on the bench.

I'm saying like something, like made a show of what he was doing.

Popovich has got that sneaky sense of humor.

Made a show of what he was doing.

One possession and then yank them.

Or even just, I don't even know, are you allowed to do this?

Insert them in the game and then just immediately call timeout and pull them out without them taking a step forward.

on the all-star basketball court during play yeah there's actually no rules governing like how much you have to play anybody or anything else i mean your starters are selected you have to start them but other than that there's there's no rules to it um you know i what you do is you you get an idea first of all like i'm sure that what happened with garnett i looked he only played like eight minutes i'll bet he told eric like hey

You know, I don't want to play a whole lot.

And so Eric went ahead and did that.

You'll occasionally have players do that, or some guys will say, look, I know minutes are tough.

You know, don't worry about me.

I had Grant Hill do that, you know, with me.

Like, hey, you know, don't worry about me.

And so that helps you out a little bit.