Rockets' Beverley calls out NBA's DNP-rest trend: 'I think that's bulls--t'

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more passionate take on the NBA's ongoing issue of team's resting their star players during the regular season than Houston Rockets guard Patrick Beverley's.

"I think that's bullshit. I think that's a disgrace to this league," Beverley said Sunday following his team's 137-125 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder at the Toyota Center, according to ESPN's Tim MacMahon. "I think that fans deserve better. I could care less about coaches ask players to rest or not. It's up to you to play or not, and if you don't you're disrespecting the game.

"And I don't believe in disrespecting the game, because there was a time where I wasn't playing in the NBA and I was trying to get here. So me resting I feel like is disrespecting me, disrespecting the name on the front of the jersey and disrespecting the name on the back of the jersey."

NBA commissioner Adam Silver recently sent out a memo to the league's owners imploring them to step in and take a more hands-on role when it comes to those decisions, as keeping stars off the court when they're healthy is bad business.

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Other players, both current and from the past, have also chimed in on the dilemma.

LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers feels it's only a problem when he's the one missing games, Washington Wizards All-Star John Wall thinks the NBA has "gotten a little softer," and Utah Jazz legend Karl Malone wants all players who don't have 10 or more years of experience under their belt to get out there and compete.