No more fake injury reports. No more made up maladies. Doctors are off the hook. General managers are off the hook. The NBA, in its new collective bargaining agreement, has mercifully done away with the old injured list. In its place is an inactive list, similar to what the NHL has. "The new CBA has cleaned things up for us so much," said John Hammond, Pistons vice president of basketball. "Especially from an organizational standpoint. Under the old rules, if you put a player on the injured list, he had to stay there for a minimum of five games. He may not have needed to be on that long. Now, if a guy needs to only miss a game, that's all he has to miss." Here's how the inactive list will work. Teams can carry as many as 15 players on their roster, with a maximum of 12 and a minimum of eight being active. A team can carry 11 active players no longer than two consecutive weeks. The rest of the players go on the inactive list. A team has until 60 minutes prior to game time to submit its active list for that game. Just like hockey, teams can change the active roster every game. Players can move freely from the active to the inactive list. "What this does is it gives the coach an advantage," Bulls general manager John Paxson told the Chicago Sun-Times. "You can take a look at the team you're playing, and that night it might be a team that you say, 'We need a bigger lineup.' Or maybe you say, 'We need a smaller lineup.' You also can use it to your advantage when you have a player who just needs two games (off) because he's beat up." Don't look for the Pistons to do a whole lot of shuffling of healthy players on its active list, though. "It's not going to be that much of an issue for us because our top 11 or 12 guys will be pretty solid," coach Flip Saunders said. "We're not in a situation where a guy on the bubble is one who you would activate to play a major role." Saunders said he would not use the inactive list as a punishment or a threat of punishment for players who may be dogging it in practice. He would, though, conceivably use it as a reward for a player who is working exceptionally hard. Here's the other thing to keep in mind: Players who are sent to the National Basketball Development League remain on the team's inactive list. So, if the Pistons decided to send rookies Amir Johnson or Alex Acker to their minor league team in Fayetteville, they wouldn't be able to replace them on their roster. http://www.detnews.com/2005/pistons/0510/10/D04-342700.htm That last paragraph is surprising. I didn't think palyers in the developmental league would count on your roster.
Thank you for the article. I always wonder about the new roster rule. Basically, rule didn't change that much from previous years. Max roster size remains same. Only difference is that teams can switch players from active to inactive more freely. Expect number of cuts on players we signed. Davis, Fisher, Monta Richardson, Pietrus, Cheaney Dunleavy Murphy, Zarko, Diogu, Taft Foyle, Biedrins That leaves 2 spots for anybody we signed in this offseason. Unless N'diaye play horribly, I think we may keep him since he is a veteran. That leaves only one slot for any guys we signed...
We'll keep Miles and possibly Justin Davis, as a backup three. If Taft is feeling better, there's no need for the two big men.
I doubt J Davis has the ball handling or range for a SF,he has decent PF skills,moves well enough to fill in a SF perhaps. Miles is likely to stick. I think if one of the centers shows something he sticks even if the main value is a future trading chip. If both suck-then Justin Davis has an edge as an ex-Stanford player.
Right now I'd say barring injury (and I just realized the irony of this as I wrote it) Miles is a lock for thie inactive list. He's a Montgomery type of player and he'd be happy with a role on the IL. My gut tells me the other spot would go to either Davis or N'diaye, but I have nothing to base it on.
