San Antonio Spurs fined by league

[StevenOtero]

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/11/30/s...ent/index.html

Offiicial Release
Posted Nov 30, 2012 6:05 PM

The NBA announced Friday that the San Antonio Spurs organization has been fined $250,000 for its decision to send four players home prior to the Spurs' Nov. 29 game in Miami. The Spurs' actions were in violation of a league policy, reviewed with the NBA Board of Governors in April 2010, against resting players in a manner contrary to the best interests of the NBA.

NBA Commissioner David Stern stated: "The result here is dictated by the totality of the facts in this case. The Spurs decided to make four of their top players unavailable for an early-season game that was the team's only regular-season visit to Miami. The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way. Under these circumstances, I have concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans."

[MC KAos]

Bigger "disservice" to the fans than the league owned team winning the lottery? The first CP3 trade, Seattle losing a team or Tim Donaghy and NBA refs in general?

David Stern is a joke, I hope the spurs sue the league over them getting fined for an ex post facto law. I can't wait till that caricature of a commish retires

BTW, is this the worst era in terms of commissioners ever? You have stern at his cynical and egotistical peak, ditto for goddell, whom also preaches player safety, yet has horrible Thursday night games and wants to add 2 more games to the schedule as a clear money grab, a guy that has been around for 2 lockouts in less than a decade and a guy that decided it would be a great idea to make an exhibition game decide the home field advantage of the most important series in that sport! Unbelievable incompetence!

[Kangaroo]

Originally Posted by MC KAos

Bigger "disservice" to the fans than the league owned team winning the lottery? The first CP3 trade, Seattle losing a team or Tim Donaghy and NBA refs in general?

David Stern is a joke, I hope the spurs sue the league over them getting fined for an ex post facto law. I can't wait till that caricature of a commish retires

BTW, is this the worst era in terms of commissioners ever? You have stern at his cynical and egotistical peak, ditto for goddell, whom also preaches player safety, yet has horrible Thursday night games and wants to add 2 more games to the schedule as a clear money grab, a guy that has been around for 2 lockouts in less than a decade and a guy that decided it would be a great idea to make an exhibition game decide the home field advantage of the most important series in that sport! Unbelievable incompetence!

I refuse to pay it and tie it up in the courts. Al Davis style

[juck]

This is awful and ridiculous. Stern is a complete idiot and so on and so on. He ruined the NBA. Spurs fans might as well kiss a chance deep in the playoffs this year cause the refs will crush the spirits lol.Cuban learned his lesson well sort of lol

[MC KAos]

Originally Posted by juck

This is awful and ridiculous. Stern is a complete idiot and so on and so on. He ruined the NBA. Spurs fans might as well kiss a chance deep in the playoffs this year cause the refs will crush the spirits lol.Cuban learned his lesson well sort of lol

Joey Crawford will ref every game in the playoffs watch!

[dargonking999]

Stern was wrong in fining the Spurs, but Pop was wrong in waiting to announce hours before the game starts that he sent his four best players home before a big inter conference game.

He said he decided this back in June, if so he should have said something at some point weeks, or at least days before the game so that people could decided if they still wanted to go to the game. He could have even said so after the game Orlando, Instead he robbed the fans of that chance. Pop wasn't wrong for resting his players, he was wrong for waiting to the very last moment to say so before a game between the two best teams in the league.

Had this been the wolves on a sunday afternoon, no one would care, but this was against the Heat on Nat TV as the game going head to head with the NFL. Stern wasn't wrong for being mad at Pop, he was wrong for this stupid penalty which is only going to make pop stick to him even worse later..

[RoyTheHammer]

Originally Posted by MC KAos

Bigger "disservice" to the fans than the league owned team winning the lottery? The first CP3 trade, Seattle losing a team or Tim Donaghy and NBA refs in general?

David Stern is a joke, I hope the spurs sue the league over them getting fined for an ex post facto law. I can't wait till that caricature of a commish retires

BTW, is this the worst era in terms of commissioners ever? You have stern at his cynical and egotistical peak, ditto for goddell, whom also preaches player safety, yet has horrible Thursday night games and wants to add 2 more games to the schedule as a clear money grab, a guy that has been around for 2 lockouts in less than a decade and a guy that decided it would be a great idea to make an exhibition game decide the home field advantage of the most important series in that sport! Unbelievable incompetence!

Great post.. and yes to every single word of it.

[coogrfan]

Originally Posted by StevenOtero

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/11/30/s...ent/index.html

Offiicial Release
Posted Nov 30, 2012 6:05 PM

The NBA announced Friday that the San Antonio Spurs organization has been fined $250,000 for its decision to send four players home prior to the Spurs' Nov. 29 game in Miami. The Spurs' actions were in violation of a league policy, reviewed with the NBA Board of Governors in April 2010, against resting players in a manner contrary to the best interests of the NBA.

[View Full Quote]NBA Commissioner David Stern stated: "The result here is dictated by the totality of the facts in this case. The Spurs decided to make four of their top players unavailable for an early-season game that was the team's only regular-season visit to Miami. The team also did this without informing the Heat, the media, or the league office in a timely way. Under these circumstances, I have concluded that the Spurs did a disservice to the league and our fans."

Lost in all of this is the fact that the Spurs almost won the game. Yet more proof of the NBA's idiotic obsession with marketing individuals over teams.

[Kangaroo]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nba--da...194828970.html

Here is a great Article about the real issue behind the fine. I did not know Stern has tried to undermine the Spurs before ouch. No wonder the NDA has been in a spiral Stern is a joke.
Read the article it will open some eyes about Stern that I did not even realize existed.

Before the emperor of the NBA leaves his Olympic Tower office, this is the holy war that those within the San Antonio Spurs' extended family expected David Stern to eventually wage on Gregg Popovich and his program's culture. The commissioner burped that terse, threatening statement promising "substantial sanctions" to the rogue state of his totalitarian nation on Thursday night. This has been a long time coming out of the commissioner's office.

And yet, once more, Stern's tossed a temper tantrum that left everyone around him embarrassed, humiliated and wondering why he insisted on staying until February of 2014. All these years, Stern and his underlings privately complained and moaned that no one wanted to watch the Spurs, that they destroyed his TV ratings, that they were uninteresting, unappealing and impossible to market to the masses.

[BraveHeartFan]

So stupid.


Absolutely one of the dumbest decisions I've ever seen involving sports.


I hope the Spurs win the whole thing now (if my Thunder don't that is ) just so Stern will have to be there to hand them the trophy and eat it on National Television.

[MC KAos]

Originally Posted by BraveHeartFan

So stupid.


Absolutely one of the dumbest decisions I've ever seen involving sports.


I hope the Spurs win the whole thing now (if my Thunder don't that is ) just so Stern will have to be there to hand them the trophy and eat it on National Television.

I think my sports life would be complete if we won the title on the last time stern had to hand the trophy over and pop mentioned the rest we got on November 29th catapulted us to that point! I would need no other title from any of my teams after that point!

[Roadtrip635]

That Heat game was clearly a set-up game by the league and Stern. The Spurs had a 10 day and 8 day road trip that ended with 4 games in 5 nights against the reigning Champs and face of the League (Lebron) that had 4 days rest for a nationally televised game. The league was trying to stick it to the Spurs and further elevate their poster child Lebron. If they truly wanted a marquee match-up for the nationally televised game, the schedule would have been a little more fair.

Pop knew exactly what they were trying to do and launched his own preemptive strike to show how he felt about what Stern was trying to do.

Pop was well within his right to make that decision to rest his players. Stern let his ego and own pettiness take over with that statement and subsequent sanction.