I don't see this rule having any bite. The player association is going to be all over the league as soon as someone is suspended because of it. With the salaries that these guy's make a one game suspension is big bucks and to suspend someone after everyother suspension is rediculious. For example if Sheed gets to 25 techs and he sits out 5 games you can imagine the lost salary would be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Like someone said Sheed is no fool and he likes collecting his checks. I remember him getting fined 10K for opening his mouth about the refs and he was silent the rest of the year because he did not want to cough up no more loot.

To me the new rule is stupid. Why doesn't Stern and his gonzo crew just increase the fine of $150 bucks per technical. Make it $2000 a technical and then after 15 technicals the amount increases by $2000. So for the 16 technical is $4000 the 17th is $6000 and so on. This makes more sense since Stern is trying to clean up the image of the league.