Silver: New guideline to recommend teams only rest players at home

The NBA is looking for a solution to its league-wide "rest problem."

While the Association isn't ready to implement a rule that restricts teams from sitting their star players altogether, commissioner Adam Silver revealed Friday that the league will likely implement guidelines next season to slow down the "DNP-rest" trend.

"We're not ready to get there yet," Silver said of forcing teams to play their stars, in an interview with ESPN's Marc Stein. "Where we're heading is the adoption of a set guidelines that will be in place for next season which will strongly recommend that if players are rested, that they rest at home and that teams also not rest multiple starters on the same night."

Silver sent a memo to NBA owners earlier this season to address the issue, revealing that teams would be handed "significant penalties" if they failed to notify the league office, their opponent, and the media prior to resting one of their star players.

"I'd like to come up with a system that relies on the good faith of our teams that to the extent that if rest is necessary, it's done in an appropriate way," Silver said. "But that, the league executives aren't dictating to coaches and GMs precisely what games their players should and shouldn't be playing in."

The Cavaliers received a call from the league in March after Cleveland rested its Big 3 of LeBron James, Kevin Love, and Kyrie Irving for a prime-time matchup against the Los Angeles Clippers.