Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu, Danny Green sent home won't play vs Heat

[QUOTE=Indian guy]I frankly don't see how sitting their stars a random game is going to help them any more in not choking against OKC in the playoffs.

This is a cowardly move by Pop, nothing more.[/QUOTE]

You don't see it, but Popovich does. He thinks his most important players could use a rest after a busy schedule, I'll take his judgment over yours in this matter.


Either way it's not Popovich's job to placate TNT or the NBA.

[QUOTE=LJJ]You don't see it, but Popovich does. He thinks his most important players could use a rest after a busy schedule, I'll take his judgment over yours in this matter.


Either way it's not Popovich's job to placate TNT or the NBA.[/QUOTE]



That's bullsh*t since this is a entertainment business and people pay to see excitement


I;m writing letter to David Stern

pop trolling the shit out of the league.

if you wanna see spurs/heat then give them a better schedule leading up to this game or at least some rest before they play the defending champs cot damn

some people will argue against this but these guys only play against each other twice a year, and the spurs will want to limit the amount of tape available if they end up in the finals lol

I was telling so many people how great this game is and how the Spurs are so different and actually fun to watch now compared to a few seasons ago. Now this happens? I hope the NBA gets their lowest ratings ever for this game.

Why don't they rest against the Magic and play today? Aren't teams supposed to want to play the best teams especially the defending champs?

Excuse from Pop to the nba: 'Basketball reason'

Spurs will win this game.

imagine if vinny del negro did this

heads would roll

[QUOTE=Nero Tulip]Well as a Spurs fan I won't pretend I am not disappointed. I was rather looking forward to this game.

But as Pop said very well last time, he is not an entertainer, he is a competitor. His job isn't to make fans happy, it's to make his team win. You can't blame him for doing what's best for his team. If anything blame the NBA and the calendar.[/QUOTE]

First and foremost the NBA is and has always been entertainment. If I had tickets to this game I would demand a refund and Pop and the Spurs organization should be heavily fined and heavily penalized for doing this.

People are ****ing retarded if they didn't see this coming. Pop has done this at the end of every road trip for three years. This road trip will bull anyway, they still have the rodeo road trip later in the season too.

Stern fixed this game anyway, Heat have played twice in two weeks.

[QUOTE=bagelred]If I'm Mickey Arinsohn and Pat Riley, I would do the same thing to Spurs on March 31st. [B] I would sit out Lebron, Wade, Bosh, and Allen. Even if it sacrifices a possible win, it f-cks the Spurs fans over just like the Spurs are f-cking the Heat fans over[/B]. The Spurs organization deserves it.[/QUOTE]

LOL so now the entertainment value of 36 year old Duncan, 30 year old Parker (who never dunks), and aged Ginobili = the entertainment value of the best player in the world, one of the best SG's in the game, and big man who could very much be a franchise player on his own team?

So much irony in this thread. You'd think some of you guys are adding Spurs games to your league pass and shit... which I know you're not.

I'm more angered for my fantasy teams missing Manu and TD, then not getting to see them play in one game out of 82+.

In about 1 week most people will have already forgotten about this... Even people who went to the game I bet.

[QUOTE=nycelt84]First and foremost the NBA is and has always been entertainment. If I had tickets to this game I would demand a refund and Pop and the Spurs organization should be heavily fined and heavily penalized for doing this.[/QUOTE]
I think the Spurs organization should be fined and that money should go directly to all refunds demanded from ticket holders (including season ticket holders) as well as partial refund of TNT's contract.

[quote=sportsfan76]

[B]I;m writing letter to David Stern[/B][/quote]

:lol

[quote=Droid101]I think the Spurs organization should be fined and that money should go directly to all refunds demanded from ticket holders (including season ticket holders) as well as partial refund of TNT's contract.[/quote]

What is their crime?

[QUOTE=chips93]imagine if vinny del negro did this

heads would roll[/QUOTE]
Vinny should be fired either way. :cheers: :cheers: :cheers: