Also from Clevis Murray's twitter feed: "The NBA has announced teams are "prohibited" from resting healthy players for "any high-profile, nationally televised game."".
So what is the NBA going to do when a player "tweaks an ankle" in the first possesion of a late regular season game? What a wad of nonsense.
They’ll figure it out. It really started to get out of hand last year. Also, they have inserted the caveat of “high-profile” — if it’s a late season game that has limited playoff implications, is that really “high-profile” even if nationally televised?
Let's not kid ourselves. IT would be "high-profile" even if it's the Cavs playing the Miami Heat or the Chicago Bulls. "High profile" is really shorthand for "our best players should be on national TV as often as humanly possible".
On the balance, this thing is completely unenforceable. If Durant plays 15 minutes instead of his usual 35, is he being "rested"?