Not that I’m opposed to what you’re saying, but there’s probably a financial reason for resting players for road games over home games.
If you rest players during home games, people will catch on eventually that it’s not guaranteed that your home team’s players will be on the court all the time, and your team’s ownership loses ticket/concession sales. If you rest players during road games, the other team bears the brunt of any such losses.
And ideally, the other team’s home market is mostly there to see their home team’s players anyway, unless they suck that bad.
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Not that I’m opposed to what you’re saying, but there’s probably a financial reason for resting players for road games over home games.
If you rest players during home games, people will catch on eventually that it’s not guaranteed that your home team’s players will be on the court all the time, and your team’s ownership loses ticket/concession sales. If you rest players during road games, the other team bears the brunt of any such losses.
And ideally, the other team’s home market is mostly there to see their home team’s players anyway, unless they suck that bad.