RESOLUTION

[Gray Mule]

WHEREAS: Major league baseball allows all teams to have

40 players protected, with 25 on the active roster, the

others assigned to their minor league teams.

WHEREAS: Major league hockey allows teams to carry

extra players at all times, designating the extra players

as inactive before each game.

WHEREAS: Major league football allows teams to carry

extra players on a taxi squad, where they may be

activated before each game.

WHEREAS: Major league basketball demands a twelve

man roster for each team, but allows each team to carry

extra players as injured and unable to play, requiring

each team to make a mockery of this rule by declaring

two players as injured, whether they are or not.

WHEREAS: Most General Managers openly talk about

their team's fourteen man roster for the season,

meaning there must always be two injured players

on the roster at all times.

WHEREAS: Some few teams refuse to hide players in

this manner, putting them at an obvious disatvantage

over their less than honest competitors.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED:

The National Basketball Association hereinafter will

allow all teams to carry a roster of fourteen [14]

players for the entire season with twelve [12] players

being listed as active players for each game. Two

players may not be active players. They may be

injured players, but it is not mandatory that they be

designated as injured. Lineup cards listing the active

players for each game will be presented to the

officials before gametime and exchange of this roster

list between coaches shall preceed each game.

[Gray Mule]

I hope all of you here at Hawksquawk agree with the old

Gray Mule on this resolution. I would like for someone

that knows how to do it, pass this on to Mr. Babcock

and/or the N.B.A.

It may have no chance, but then again, who knows.

Gray Mule

[chillzatl]

I thought I read somewhere that they had decided this year that teams weren't required to list players as injured to keep them on the IL?

[Gray Mule]

I don't remember seeing it if they did.

Babcock recently stated that he wouldn't "hide"

extra players on I.R. so I assumed it hadn't happened.

If it is not already done, why can't they do it? If it is

already done, then great!

Gray Mule

[Boondocks]

Well I did read they were planning to change it in to a 12 "active" roster and a possible 3 "inactive" addition. So instead of the injured list it would be "inactive". They also mentioned some of the lousy excuses for the injuries, one being "insomnia", lmao.