Rapper and entrepreneur Ice Cube, who is usually at odds with the NBA has called them out once again, after the league reportedly is thinking about rule changes.
For the past several years, the NBA has been trying to restrict the “time management” of its players, who tend to be weary at the end of the 82-game
season. To combat the tiredness that professional players experience, coaches have been implementing what has been called, “load management” to rest their players throughout the NBA season.The NBA has been trying to discourage teams from keeping their best players off the courts when they are not injured. Fans have become disappointed when their favorite players come into town but aren’t participating in the contest because the game may not be deemed important.
In a Twitter post by Bleacher Report‘s Eric Pincus, he stated that the league is looking to put in place a target score for the NBA. They have started testing it in the G League recently.
A target score is a number that a
team would reach in order to outright win the game, as opposed to the game being played within a specific time. This would eliminate the wear and tear the athletes put on themselves when playing long games. It would also prevent networks from having to broadcast past the allotted time the game is typically played.NBA Central posted about what may take place regarding the target score experiment.
Ice Cube, in typical fashion, made sure to remind folks that his Big3 league implemented the target score rule over five years ago.