NBA Commissioner Adam Silver has put teams on notice that the league wouldn’t be sitting by quietly while franchise players park themselves anywhere else but on the hardwood during scheduled games. Per reports from ESPN.com’s Ramona Shelburne, the 54-year-old New York native sent a pointed memo to team owners as a preemptive strike to more drastic measures, cautioning them that there would be “significant penalties” for teams that fail to adhere to the protocol in notifying t

To rest, or not to rest, that is the question. The current NBA hot topic revolves around teams resting their star players during the regular season. It seems that this topic comes up at some point each year but this season, thanks in part to commissioner Sterling getting involved, the issue seems much bigger. NBA fans, analysts and personnel alike are getting in on what is turning out to be a very polarizing conversation. There are two sides to the argument after all, each fa

Imagine you are 8-year-old kid living in Phoenix, Arizona and you wanted to see the best player in the world play basketball in person. You notice on the schedule that the Cleveland Cavaliers come once to Phoenix for a game. This is the date marked on your calendar if you are a basketball fan anywhere in the world. You want to see the best player in the world play. The same thing happened when Michael Jordan would come to town. So you decide to ask your parents to go to that