{"id":458881,"date":"2023-09-11T23:54:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458881"},"modified":"2023-09-11T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T19:58:07","slug":"nba-restricts-all-star-players-rest-in-games","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nba-restricts-all-star-players-rest-in-games\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA restricts All-Star players&#8217; rest in games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBA directors are preparing to impose a new policy that would prevent teams from resting more than one of their stars, according to The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>All-Stars are defined as players who have been selected to NBA All-Star teams or have been named to one of the NBA&#8217;s All-Star Teams for the past three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The policy is the result of a debate over the past few years to cut back on teams using the tactic to control the workload of basketball players to the detriment of fans and television audiences.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NBA Board is expected to vote this week on new rule that a team is unable to rest two star players in the same game<\/p>\n<p>A change everyone would get on board<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBA<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBATwitter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#NBATwitter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uVpjrHnzLa\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uVpjrHnzLa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BetUS NBA ? (@BetUS_NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BetUS_NBA\/status\/1701296674243535151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Clippers, for example, won&#8217;t be able to rest Kawhi Leonard and Paul George in the same game if the new policy goes into effect.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA also limited the scheduling of back-to-back games in different cities and increased the number of back-to-back away games against the same opponent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA directors are preparing to impose a new policy that would prevent teams from resting more than one of their stars, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458882,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17837],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[1067],"acf":{"announce":"Teams won't be able to leave their start on the bench at the same time","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458883,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458881\/revisions\/458883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458881"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458881"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}