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Originally Posted by rudel.dietrich
We will see how this season goes. Maybe I am optimistic in that we will see overall games played increase 5-10%
Others are more cynical and feel like we could see team start to use the injury tag more often.
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I agree with the earlier statement TBH that most of the time this load management stuff is coming from on high. Owners and the front office have an investment in these players and they don't want them to break down. I think most players, given their druthers, would happily play 40 minutes a night every night. I'm not even sure that Kawhi Leonard represents an exception to that; he's being load-managed heavily because he tore his ACL - which in years past meant that your NBA career was over - and recently he got the biscuit meniscus.
The really bad stuff to me was OKC "load managing" SGA the year before last and just shutting him down for no reason other than to give them a better chance in the lottery. *That* is specifically the thing the league needs to defend against, not the Clips trying to get Kawhi to play 10 games a year instead of 0.