{"id":347611,"date":"2023-09-13T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=347611"},"modified":"2023-09-13T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T18:12:52","slug":"nba-board-of-governors-approves-new-player-participation-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-board-of-governors-approves-new-player-participation-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Board of Governors approves new Player Participation Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The NBA Board of Governors today approved a new Player Participation Policy, which is intended to promote player participation in the NBA\u2019s regular season.\u00a0 The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ak-static.cms.nba.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2023\/09\/NBA-Player-Participation-Policy.pdf\">new policy<\/a>\u00a0will take effect with the start of the 2023-24 regular season and enhance and replace the Player Resting Policy, which was implemented prior to the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Player Participation Policy primarily will focus on star players.\u00a0 A star player for purposes of the policy is any player who, in any of the prior three seasons, was selected to an All-NBA Team or an NBA All-Star team.\u00a0 This definition also applies, following a given season\u2019s All-Star Game, to any player who is named an All-Star during that season.<\/p>\n<p>Under the policy, unless a team demonstrates an approved reason for a star player not to participate in a game, then, among other things, the team must:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Manage its roster to ensure that no more than one star player is unavailable for the same game.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ensure that star players are available for all national television and NBA In-Season Tournament games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Maintain a balance between the number of one-game absences for a star player in home and road games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Refrain from any long-term \u201cshutdowns\u201d in which a star player stops playing games.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 If resting a healthy player, ensure that the player is present at the games and visible to fans.<\/p>\n<p>The policy includes exceptions for injuries, personal reasons and pre-approved back-to-back restrictions based on a player\u2019s age, career workload or serious injury history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Player Participation Policy primarily will focus on star players<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":278632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15727],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-347611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-press-release-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/NBA-logo-illustration.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347611"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=347611"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=347611"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=347611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}