The NBA is desperately trying to figure it out because it wants, so badly, fans to take up stadium seats to see the league's stars as a lucrative new television contract. To kick off his 21st season in the NBA, LeBron James is doing what fans are used to seeing him do for the past two decades. For the past few years, the NBA has set out to find solutions to the league's burden management problem. Star players are classified as players who have been part of an All-Star or All-NBA team in any of the past three seasons, according to Woj.
The NBA board of governors approved new rules that further strengthen existing policies, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN. It may be a little complicated, but the basic thing to understand here is that star NBA players now have this new set of rules applied. The old rules on rest are still valid for the rest of the league, of course, but the NBA has created these new parameters to ensure that its star players stand out in every possible way. The league established a player rest policy that limited when teams could rest their players on certain nights, but apparently that wasn't enough for the NBA.
