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Originally Posted by thehef
One change to the CBA that I definitely like: The 65-game minimum to be eligible for awards. Anything that might curtail load management is good with me. I hope this extends to any awards that might be incentives in player contracts.
Of course, the way around this is to suit a guy up and play him for a very minimal amount of time. Heck, Kawhi won't even need to stretch & warm-up to be inserted for the last few seconds of the first quarter... especially if it's a meaningless game at the end of the season... and load managing a guy to a mere 65 games won't really be much of a challenge; this season no team has more than 15 back-to-backs, with most teams in the 12-range. So now that I think about it, this is going to have very little affect on curtailing load management, in all likelihood.
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My understanding is that this is going to be for all awards.
And it seems that load management is more team driven than player driven.
Players seem to want to play but teams often sit them based on what their medical and sports science people tell them.
That is not true in every case. But it seems for the most part when a player takes a game off or is slow coming back from injury it is team driven.
And I do not really see players warming up and playing 2 minutes and then intentionally fouling to be subbed out.
First off, most players whom I have seen interviews with, will tell you that just getting warmed up and going through pre game is almost as intensive as the game itself.
Getting your body loose and in condition to play.
Second, if they play a minute or two and then are subbed out, that will kill their per game averages, and players will hate that.
It remains to be seen if this will do anything towards the load management epidemic. But it is a start