+1
Wasn't this supposed to be to keep them healthy? Seems like everyone is always injured. I heard Gilbert Arenas say how current players won't admit it, but he said when he'd get fined 10k for being late for something, it would piss him off so much, that "The next time I sprain my ankle... 'Yeah, gonna need a couple more games to be right'" and then broke down his salary to show how they lost in the long run.
I haven't been to a game in years. When a friend of mine lived close to the arena, I might have gone to almost half the games but like you said, if I wanna go see Luka play, and he rests (which he did the first available time!), then the Eastern Conference fans have to wait another year for the possibility.
I only watch my home-team, and no other sport, so I'm kinda stuck, partly since the Pistons won a title right after I started watching. Toward the end, I didn't even bother to pause, which I would before, because I want to see all those little details, especially how guys play when they're down 30; character-wise, mostly. When the Pistons play hard, they win. Defense/offense is such a chicken/egg thing.. If you can't defend, you have to take the ball out with the opposing defenses set, and if you keep taking 3's, those bricks are going to be long misses, just asking for a fast break score. I miss a motion offense like the Kings played in the early 2000s. Their best passers were all big men - Webber, Divac, Brad Miller.
And the refs with all these fckin reviews.... driving me nuts, and that's when I usually get up and throw some food in the microwave, because the sound of that is better.