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Stern discipline spurs reaction from Lakers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
For once,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], talk around the NBA centered on something beyond the Lakers' soap operas.
The league's most-discussed topic shifted to NBA Commissioner David Stern fining the San Antonio Spurs $250,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],000 on Friday for coach Gregg Popovich sitting key players the previous day against the Miami Heat. Popovich rested Tim Duncan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Manu Ginobili,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Tony Parker and Danny Green and sent them home to San Antonio after the team played five games in eight days.
"It was a smart move from Popovich. But he shouldn't have come out and said (anything). Just send them home and say they're sick,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Lakers forward Metta World Peace said before the Lakers hosted the Denver Nuggets on Friday at Staples Center.
"It was just too much in the face of everybody,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. He had a little bit of Ron Artest in him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
Popovich has kept players out of the lineup plenty of times in hopes his veteran-laden team stays healthy. He sat players last April before the playoffs started. In one regular-season game,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Duncan's "DNP" status in a box score included this explanation penned from Popovich: "Old."
But the latest incident marked the first time the NBA issued penalties,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
Before the game started,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Stern also released a statement promising "substantial sanctions." He wasn't kidding.
"I thought as a coach you can do what's best for your team," said Lakers forward Antawn Jamison,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a 15-year veteran. "But with the ratings,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], being on TNT and people seeing the San Antonio Spurs play Miami,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], David has a different Advertisement
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"It didn't surprise me (Popovich) rested those guys. It surprised me the NBA said something,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
Hence,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], why Nuggets coach George Karl sensed an unsettling precedent.
"I'm a big supporter of the fans and understand what commissioner Stern is trying to do in supporting the fan. In the same sense,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it's a territory of coaching,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Karl said. "Our arena of influence is shrinking. Now we're talking about who can play and when can they play? Are we going to talk about how many shots they're going to get and what plays to run?"
Frustrations with purple and gold
For someone who's acknowledged "despising" the Lakers, does Karl receive satisfaction seeing the Lakers' star-studded team not perform as advertised?
"I don't see that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said. "I'm just tired of getting beat by them and tired of ending my season in this building to the yellow jerseys."
They pushed in a seven-game series,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but the Nuggets lost to the Lakers last season in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Denver also lost to the Lakers in six games in the 2009 Western Conference finals and suffered a four-game sweep in the first round in 2008.
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