Anthony Edwards Calls Out NBA Players Who Sit Out Regular Season Games: 'You Gotta Play'
It's not just NBA fans who are sick and tired of seeing star players randomly sit out games during the regular season, Minnesota Timberwolves superstar Anthony Edwards is annoyed by the reality as well.
Speaking ahead of this past weekend's NBA All-Star Game, Edwards was asked if he'd like to change anything in the league. Players sitting out games immediately came to the mind of the former Georgia Bulldog.
"Probably just all the guys sitting, resting," Edwards explained. "That’s the only thing I probably don’t like. Just play, man. If you’re 80%, 70 – you gotta play. I don’t like all the sitting, missing games and stuff like that. These people might have enough money to come to one game, you know what I’m saying? That might be the game they come to and then you’re sitting out."
"I take pride in trying to play every game because you never know if there’s one fan that might never seen me play and I’m trying to play."
Anthony Edwards is tired of seeing players around the league sitting out games. (Getty Images)
Load management around the league has become a very real issue and shows no signs of slowing down.
You have superstar players sitting out random regular season games, and more often than not their absence from the lineup isn't announced until very close to tip-off, which as Edwards alluded to, makes the fan experience not live up to expectations.
The only rule set in place to get players on the floor involve nationally televised games. If healthy players sit out nationally televised games during the regular season they will be fined $100,000.