It’d be like that scene at the end of Walk Hard with Dewey Cox meeting his 50 kids

Hell nawl

Embiid would father a dozen if it meant he could avoid playing in Denver and still be on track for awards

Accountants for star players are doing the math as we speak

Just have 82 kids be born every year so you can miss all the games but still get paid

That’s life in the big city

An LA 6 is a 9 everywhere else

Jaden Ivey is not gonna be happy about this…

You’re a fucking punk, dude.

I was going to make a tito joke until I saw you beat me to it.

keep reaching for those grapes

I would love that just to see how that affects his advanced stats.

Team goes down 50 points in 20 minutes of playtime and played defense on 0 possessions. But its only ¹⁄₆₅ games so can’t affect it too much

I’d literally pay good money to see Silver shit himself in anger when he sees the Jazz signing 7 players from the G league just so they would ensure a loss in their last game, with Luka standing in the corner of the court to get his 65 games

Against the Jazz of all teams. Shit writes itself.

Side note, why do the Jazz and Lakers seem to always play each other for the final game of the season? Seems like it’s almost always in LA too. It’s like a weird fixed part of the schedule lol. This year, Kobe’s last game, and I think at least two other times in the last 5ish years.

It’s a BS rule. It doesn’t reward the best players. Luka won’t make it by playing 64 games and then a much worse player with 67 games will take his place.

If you play so well in 60 games that you affect your team as much as someone else who played 80, why should you not be eligible? Voters aren’t dumb, they can assess impact without strict rules.

Yes 82 games is ridiculous with how much more physically demanding the modern NBA is

3 of the top 7 players are missing it despite being in their 20s and generally having pretty available for most of their careers up until this point and the top 3 mvp candidates are all one ankle sprain away from missing it as well

Increasingly yes it seems. Like I get where you’re coming from and don’t even fully disagree, but injuries have really seemed to increase among stars these last number of years.

I don’t know how many years I got left on this tv deal. I’m gonna get real weeeeird with it.

Yeah, minutes should be taken into account too. NBA came up with that rule and didn’t establish minimum amount of minutes 🤣🤣

The league would rather them shorten minutes than miss less games. That way fans attending can still see the players.

He won’t get it. The “extraordinary circumstances” rule is specifically written to appeal if the player gets screwed over by the team and held out of games when they are healthy enough to play so they can’t meet rookie max/supermax criteria. Luka is pissed off so his agent is doing his job to represent his client, but his situation is not what the rule says. He also misses the “season ending injury” exception because he has played in ⁶⁴⁄₇₇ (83.1%) of Lakers games and a player needs at least 85% at the time of their injury.

they can’t reduce the calendar because owners want to fill the stadiums up as much as possible

The players don’t want the schedule reduced either.

Appeal for extraordinary circumstances on extraordinary circumstances.

He’s 2 games away from being 2 games away. 😭

Valid question. Everyone wants a waiver and a special exemption nowadays.

That’s not part of the extraordinary circumstances exception, which is different from the season ending injury exception.

Due to extraordinary circumstances, it was impracticable for him to play in one (1) or more of the Regular Season game(s) that he missed during such Season;

He would have satisfied the Award Eligibility Criterion set forth in Section 6(a)(1) above if he had played in every game that he missed due to the extraordinary circumstances (i.e., assuming that he would have played twenty (20) minutes in each such missed game); and

As a result of the extraordinary circumstances, and taking into account the totality of the circumstances, including whether the player did not play in other Regular Season games in which he could have played during such Season, it would be unjust to exclude the player from eligibility

Yes, the exception still requires playing at least 62 games I believe.

He didn’t hit that…

But from another perspective, one of those things was completely voluntary and the other was an injury sustained while playing, and guys playing basketball instead of sitting out games was the NBA’s intent when creating this 65-game rule.

If the intent of the 65 game rule is to ensure stars play, punishing one guy who got injured while actually playing but making an exception for the guy who voluntarily decided not to play when healthy is kinda backwards.

Very reasonable absence for Luka but if people start nitpicking all these absences and exceptions it waters down the point of the rule.

So is players pumping out kids.

That would 100% results in a Hornets championship

And Kawhi. Wild cause there’s a chance Kawhi actually makes the 65 game limit

So funny how everyone was defending it last year but now that it’s this subs favorite players they hate it. Almost like it was a stupid rule to begin with

He also got suspended for too many techs. Entirely avoidable

He could’ve missed those two games and still had exactly 65 games without needlessly getting suspended. The league already gave him a second chance by rescinding that earlier technical against the Magic, but then he went and got another one, anyway.

Luka did play vs the Pistons though

It’s not dumb, that’s the rule. Availability is part of it.

If you think it’s dumb then the Lakers can reform to change the rules in the off-season but that doesn’t mean you get to change the rules in the middle of it.

If you get suspended and miss the thing then it’s silly to claim extraordinary circumstances. Frankly if you have any suspensions you should be completely off the table and not be allowed to get the extraordinary circumstances

This is a separate argument as to whether or not they should have this rule. I would argue they probably should though since look people care about it so that’s why they’re playing more.

Imagine if the golden boot went to the player who had the most goals per game. Or if they gave it to the second place guy because he got injured and if he hadn’t he surely would have scored more goals than the first place guy.

Oh no! A player will only get 220 million vs 320 million. Wouldn’t someone think of the poor players 😔