smackeddog wrote:I'd rather rest them than lose them to long term injury- case point, the latest person to speak out against resting players is D'Antoni, however he basically killed Kobe by playing him for entire games in the last stretch of that season that led to his achilles rupture, which kind of undermines his argument

However I do think fans should get some money back on tickets

Yeah. Not sure that it would have been easy to get Kobe to come out but I agree he needed to play fewer minutes that year. The game where he ruptured his achilles was brutal to watch. He got hurt several times before that and had no business being in the game if I recall correctly. It was like watching a boxing match where a guy gets knocked to the canvas a couple of times but the fight isn't stopped and finally he gets knocked down again and just doesn't get up.