29 Dec 10 NBA To Investigate Players Sitting at the End of the Season

Ezra Shaw/Getty ImagesAs the NBA regular season comes to an end, it has been announced that the NBA is going to investigate healthyplayers sitting out games in order to rest for the upcoming playoff schedule.I may be wrong, but I do not recall such uproar in previous yearsover players resting heading into the playoffs.The fans discontentseems to stem from the fact that Cleveland Cavalier star LeBron James has ditched his jersey and shorts for a suit the final four games of their regular season.By all reports, James is perfectly healthy and Minnesota Vikings
he is sitting out games just to rest for the playoffs.The fans argue that if they are going to spend all the money it costs to go see an NBA game, their teamsshould be doing everything possible to win that game. Itundeniable that the Cavsgive themselves the best chance to win games with a healthyLeBron James on the floor.Fans who have a problem with James' decision torest point to Michael Jordan playing all 82 games during a run of three consecutive NBA championships despite having everything locked up heading into the final week of those three regular seasons. People say MJ did it for the fans because he understood that they came to the games tosee him playmuch like the fans in Cleveland mostly go to see LeBron.Maybe some of the Cavs fans should ask Portland if they wished their star player,Brandon Roy, could have rested the last couple games of the regularseason. Instead, the Trail Blazers were fighting for a better seed in the Western Conference and were forced to play Roy down the stretch.With just two games left before the end of the regular season, Roy tore his meniscus in a game against the Lakersand is now very questionable for the playoffs. Sure, the Trail Blazers are in the playoffs, but without a healthy Brandon Roy, who honestly New England Patriots jersey
thinks they can make a deep run?Cleveland fans need to realize justhow easy it is to get hurt playing basketball. Sure, LeBron could go in and play 15 to 20 minutes for the final couple games of the year. But is it worth it if onlyone bad fall, a rolled ankle, ora poke in the eye could end LeBron's season and the Cavs' hope for a title?I understand the fans want to see competitive basketball, but let look at the four games that LeBron missed. The Cavs did lose all four, but three of the four gameswereagainst playoff-bound teams. And with the exception of the final game, which was played by bench players for the most part, the Cavs lost by no more than six points in any of those games. The fans were not watching terrible basketball.If you don like seeing LeBron on the bench, then as a fan you should know better than to buy tickets to the last week of the season. Especially when you know there is a chance the Cavs could have everything locked up by then.It not like basketball is the only sport in the world to rest their players heading into the playoffs. It's done in football and baseball every single year and fans for the most part understand why.In the blink of an eye anyone could suffer a devastating injury, even if they are only on the court or field for a matter of minutesBrandon New Orleans Saints jersey
Roy's injury occurred less than 12 minutes into the game.I think it ridiculous for the NBA to looking into this "situation" at all. It's the goal of every team heading into the seasonto win a championship. If thecoachthinks resting their star player for a couple games gives them the best chance to win, then no one outside of the team or organization should have any say in the matter.