NP- Should NBA make "injury pay" 50% of salary?

This just makes too much sense. They will say that the contract is guaranteed. But there should be stipulations for games missed. I doubt any team would have courage to enforce it though, they would waive it except in the case of career ending injury. No team wants to take that PR hit. It would have to be automatically deducted per the CBA..

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This is a topic that's pointless to talk about because it will never happen.

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This


You can then argue that players shouldn't be paid for games they are out for "REST" but then the teams will just say they have some kind of "soreness" and guys will rest without ever being officially out for rest, so there's an easy way around it.


I like the idea that you have to play a certain amount of games to be eligible for awards, especially in those instances like All NBA where the awards can affect their bottom line.

Don't play in 60 games, you are not eligible for any NBA awards.

Other than that, not sure what else can be done since the players have to agree to it.

What if the 50% of that game's pay was distributed amongst the teammates that actually played in the missed game? Then it doesn't look like a money grab by the owners. It only provides a financial incentive for players to play.

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What if the 50% of that game's pay was distributed amongst the teammates that actually played in the missed game?

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That doesn't have potential to cause friction in the locker room at all. Guys showing up to the locker room with expensive jewelry thanking their teammates for buying it for them with the injury tax money.

Again I ask, why? How many injured players are actually milking things when it's not a star player looking for leverage situation? Every Pels player that has had an upper body injury has come back and played while they are still in pain and it has often showed with poor performance. Every player with a lower body injury has been held out until they were 100% because the risk of reinjury or injuring something else while overcompensating for the not fully healed part are too high.

I'm not saying people should be happy, but you're trying to find answers and fixes where none really exist. It's just a shitty situation that we have to go through.

I was thinking more for the "rest" and "load management" games than true injury games. The suggestion was to try to improve regular season shittiness and maybe should have been a spin-off thread?

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Those often are directed by the team, not the players. You can't dock players' pay because the boss told you to stay home for your own good.

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Yep, and like I said, that REST will still happen just as often, it'll just be changed to "right ankle soreness" or some shite like that.

Discussions about load mgmt and players missing games will be in the next CBA. Too bad Silver is too much of a weenie to get anything changed. The product will continue to suffer if they don't make some changes.

It will never happen, but since we are just throwing stuff out.

What if contracts were per game played, so rather than sign a 5 year contract, you sign a 400 games played contract. There would be an injury clause in there where you could get paid something for games missed while injured, but your contract is not up until you actually play the 400 games.

How many games are healthy , not old (NBA standards) players really sitting out?

It’s a story on sports shows, I’ve just never seen a #.

I’m guessing it’s not many, but just seems like it when they say player X is resting on a back to back.

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According to spotrac.com, entering Thursday, 36 players had missed a total of 96 games on account of injury management – that’s 21 more players than all of last season, and four more games already. And last season, 50 players missed a total of 99 games, officially, to “rest.”

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So this season averages less than 3 games per player. Last season right under 2 games per player. I’m sure most only care about ‘star’ players, I wonder what those #s are.