In its ongoing effort to combat “resting” and “player management”, the NBA’s Board of Governors is expected to approve a new rule today that will prevent teams from resting more than one healthy star player during nationally televised games and games related to the in-season tournament. Teams that break this policy will incur increasing fines, beginning with $100,000 for the first offense, $250,000 for the second offense, and $1 million more than the previous penalty for each additional fine. (The Spurs should demand $150,000 back from the league from David Stern’s fine of $250,000 in 2012.)
Bobby Marks of ESPN has a great breakdown of all the ins and outs of the rule, and there is more to it than just which games stars can be rested (and how many).