NBA still seeks solutions for rest issue, won’t reduce games
The recommendations were that teams avoid resting multiple healthy players for national TV games, and when necessary to rest players, do so during home games.
Silver sent a memo to owners last month, urging them to be more mindful of the rest decisions, after the Warriors and Cleveland rested multiple All-Stars during back-to-back Saturday prime-time games on ABC.
The league will start the 2017-18 season about a week earlier than the usual late-October time, which he hopes could trim about two back-to-backs per team from the schedule and possibly slash stretches of four games in five nights entirely.
The Board of Governors reached a conclusion on another matter, ruling that Charlotte would be eligible to host the 2019 All-Star Game after a compromise deal to replace a North Carolina law that limited anti-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay and transgender people.