Yeah OKC is definitely the top priority for investigation regarding this phenomenon lmao

Just look at how far the Spurs have come. Once upon a time, it was the League investigating the Spurs for resting players during a nationally televised game.

OKC should actually argue that the Spurs play down to their competition so much that it was a legitimate strategy to win the game (they almost did lmao)

Investigate the Utah Jazz next please, they are even more egregious with starters sitting out whole quarters or players listed available to play that end up not playing at all

Investigate Kawhi lmfao wtf

you haven’t provided anywhere woike actually said this.

the athletic link doesn’t point to the article where he said it. the bluesky link is an aggregator that doesn’t link to the original quote.

misleading as fuck.

OKC was trying not to avoid giving the Spurs any insight into potential playoff adjustments & the NBA is pissed bc it was billed as a big game.

Investigate the Jazz’s tanking and Giannis/Kalshi first. Performative league

Remember how the NBA was investigating the Clippers? Funny how that just seems to have gone nowhere…

sliver so bitchmade

Maybe instead of punishing teams you should work on your scheduling Mr Silver. Thunder played 3 games in 4 days and one happened to be the day before this game. If the NBA wants full participation they need to look at how they are scheduling their marquee matchups. Guarantee if the Spurs would’ve been the first night of a back to back this doesn’t happen

The NBA when their best team rests a few guys on a scheduled loss: 🧐🧐🧐🧐

NBA when a certain team rests players on vague injuries, rest 20 year olds, and literally sit their best players out in a close game: 😴😴😴😴

The home/away b2bs the league has been scheduling are really dumb, don’t blame OKC one bit for sticking it to the league.

They were ducking us 100% they didn’t want the smoke (we nearly lost to their 3rd stringers)

NBA should buy Pinkerton for the amount of investigating they gotta do this season

They were off a B2B, if I recall? Seems normal

Edit: yeah, Feb 3 they played ORL and then play SAS on Feb 4. I thought it was normal for stars to rest off a b2b but I guess this match was more serious? Or I’m too used to following Lebron inj updates LOL

Teams are tanking.

It’s funny for the league to go after a couple of good teams (whose players genuinely need a rest) when there is competitive tanking happening at the bottom of the table.

Unless there’s other evidence it just sounds like the tops mad that the game wasn’t a blood fest and turned out to be a forgone conclusion without OKCs top players going at it with Spurs.

Again the NBA is responsible for its scheduling, teams shouldn’t be harassed for not showing up on a B2B after having 1 day off after going against the Nuggets.

With how many players, with some being your big names, going down you’d think the NBA would be more understanding and if they want to hype up a game, then give teams a solid enough break so they don’t have to worry about injuries

I’m sure we definitely intended to be down to 5 rostered players and the 3 two way players for that game /s

Hey Mr. Silver I get what you’re going for, but seeing a suicide squad of Kenny Hustle, JWill and the savior of basketball hang with the Spurs for 45 minutes was one of the most entertaining games I’ve watched all year

Yea let’s investigate the thunder but completely neglect the Jazz. Make it make sense.

We wanna investigate this shit while the Luka trade and the Kawhi tree thing are not even being talked about?

Foh with this shit Adam Silver is a bitch

I turned that game on, and I consider myself a pretty avid NBA watcher, and I legitimately had never heard of like 3 of the OKC players.

You got multiple teams with like 12 wins picking up dudes off the street and sitting players late in the game to make sure they don’t win but the Thunder are the issue because they had 5 healthy players in a national televised game whatever you say Commissioner Baldy

This should not come as a surprise to anyone. It is literally the policy of the NBA to automatically investigate any instance where a Star Player (which has an actual definition) does not play in a Nationally Televised Game.

Here is a link to the policy, see specifically Section I.A: https://pr.nba.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/46/2023/09/NBA-Player-Participation-Policy.pdf

Sure, investigate that but not the illegal bullshit with Giannis and his betting bullshit or the Clippers with Kawhi

I think the only fair punishment would be to take away all of OKC’s first round picks this year and give them to a random team, let’s just say the Portland Trailblazers. An ethical team who would never intentionally sit players who aren’t really injured

SGA missed two games in a row? What are they up to???

Jesus fucking christ yes this is what we need to be focused on. A third of the league is actively trying to lose games but sure, lets investigate the Thunder. Giannis is manipulating betting markets, the Clippers are doing cap circumvention, but yeah, lets investigate the Thunder. Give me a goddamn break

Ok but what the Jazz did the other day was ok because it’s not a national televised game?

And nothing for the Wizards lmao

Now you can see why players often come back against the Lakers. Don’t wanna get fined

Is Adam Silver fucking serious

This whole league needs to be investigated lmao

I said in post back before the game anout our injury report and that ESPN wasn’t going to be happy about this. Is bet anything that they complained to the NBA lol

If you watched the broadcast, the announcers made it clear they were unhappy about it.

REVOKE THE TITLE

The thing I don’t really understand, and maybe I’m just OOTL, is why isn’t the league more seriously considering extending the length of the season to try to combat this stuff?

If the main problem is back to backs, why is the regular season still starting in late October and running to mid April? Even if you just add 10 days to the regular season, that should be plenty to get the number of back to backs down to a level where they’re not considered much of an issue.

If 60% of the salaries are “resting” then the ticket prices should be adjusted 60%. That would cure this fiasco.

Ok now do something about the ridiculous tanking all these teams are doing. ruining the sport Adam

Nice link buddy

I guess I get it, bad for TV. But they should be looking into UTA and WAS in terms of sitting players. That shit is egregious…

Meanwhile the Clippers are getting all-star invites

I was so pissed when the uber driver dropping me off for this game told me 9 of the OKC players were out for injury💀💀💀

Just fine the team and keep it moving.

They were ducking because we put bta twice and beat them a third time and they were scared of a 4th

So that’s a problem. But the wizards blatantly sitting Trae and soon to be AD to is fine?

But they don’t care about cap circumvention.

Why is there a picture of Rob Pelinka?

This happened last year too I’m pretty sure

The NBA blows now.

Players want more $$ to play less.

Coaches are soft as baby shit.

It’s a glorified 3-pt contest now, with some layups/dunks in between.

Glad Adam Silver is finally investigating OKC for intentionally sitting players to tank, even if it’s 4 years removed from being relevant. 

They should look at the Lakers game too.

Haven’t seen one announcement that the league is investigating Aspiration, btw.

didn’t they do this last year against us for the same thing with a Jazz game and never do anything about it?

But what about the tanking teams?

Throw the book at them. The tanking is disgusti— wait

Oh no what are you going to do! Take one of our picks away?

Who gives a rats. Shai is still out injured which is basically all that they care about.

The punishment for these are rarely enough for teams to not do it

It’s not like Silver will fire a GM and install his friends kid as GM for punishment or anything

Investigate the damn Jazz, sitting their starters in the 4th when they had the lead, is straight tanking

HELLO JAZZ HELLO

Cough”jazz”Cough (the difference is the jazz don’t get nationally televised games