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Official 2020 NBA Offseason - First Half Season Schedule Out

1. Anyone who uses the term "load management" about anything other than porn should have their opinion immediately ignored. Call it "star player on good team vacation days", which is what it really is. Nobody is managing Willy Cauley-Stein's loads other than deacphan.

2. As far as I know, the only pro sport where the amount of necessary rest between appearances has actually been studied and shown to cause a negative health correlation is with baseball pitchers. This recent NBA phenomena is just millennial pussies on winning teams wanting to take days off because they can and their team won't be materially affected. From the team's perspective it doesn't matter, but the league needs to understand that at their core they are simply entertainers and that they are shafting their audience, and especially their other paying fanbases for away games, when their star players don't play for no apparent reason. Unlike college sports and to a lesser extent MLB and the NFL, the NBA's marketing and branding is focused on individual players. If the players get the upside of that, they should also carry the downside.

3. The league should push for a mandatory CBA contract requirement for max/supermax contracts only that says if a max or supermax player misses more than 3 games per season due to "injuries" not requiring invasive surgery under general anesthetic, then the total contract amount for that season is reduced by 5% for each game over 3.

So if a player strains ligaments in his knee and a month of rest is called for, he'd get docked pay in your world?

I've had multiple ankle injuries that caused me to be unavailable for six weeks or so but didn't need surgery. Sprained ankles could cost players millions of dollars in 2&2's world.

Lots of hand and wrist injuries don't require surgery.
 
that sounds like hurt, not injured to me
 
Official 2019-20 NBA Season: Collins tests positive for HGH - Out 25 games

By the way, legalizing marijuana would help NBA players manage chronic pain after back to backs.
 
Maybe a dumb idea, I really haven't thought it through, but I wonder if the league has thought about making home-court advantage more weighted for the higher-seeded team in the playoffs (e.g., 5-2 instead of 4-3). It'd probably make the first round of the playoffs more predictable and unwatchable but it's pretty much chalk already.

"Go ahead, Kawhi, play in 60 regular season games and get the 3 seed, but you're playing 5 road games a pop in the final 3 rounds of the playoffs."
 
reduce the season to 58 games, play everybody twice, home and away

what would be the issue there? makes every game more important, players won't need to rest as much.

sixers are playing 16 games this month. that's a whole NFL season.
 
I have no problem with the resting guys

the incentive for late round home court advantage is pretty high — teams can make the call on rest vs. competitiveness

kinda sucks for fans, but forcing guys to play doesn’t sit well with me

I’m curious what the stats say — feel like good teams still win close to their full strength rate even when resting a guy
 
reduce the season to 58 games, play everybody twice, home and away

what would be the issue there? makes every game more important, players won't need to rest as much.

sixers are playing 16 games this month. that's a whole NFL season.

Zero chance that happens, obviously, but would totally kill any cross-era comparison
 
reduce the season to 58 games, play everybody twice, home and away

what would be the issue there? makes every game more important, players won't need to rest as much.

sixers are playing 16 games this month. that's a whole NFL season.
Players' pockets get about 30% lighter?
 
There is some sports science research out there: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27535989/ but mostly calls for more study. Anyway, tells me all I need to know about the IOC and BMJ, because, I'll refer you all back to:

1. Anyone who uses the term "load management" about anything other than porn should have their opinion immediately ignored. .
 
Like legalizing it wouldn't make much of a difference...
 
By shortening the season, they will have to take appropriate salary cuts which is unlikely to happen.

As to players from other playing today, the subs from earlier days wouldn't have much of a chance. The good players and the stars would be fine. One thing people forget about in this argument is that the players from other eras would have the same training, etc., as today's players use. Thus, the "gap" wouldn't be as great as many think.
 
So if a player strains ligaments in his knee and a month of rest is called for, he'd get docked pay in your world?

I've had multiple ankle injuries that caused me to be unavailable for six weeks or so but didn't need surgery. Sprained ankles could cost players millions of dollars in 2&2's world.

Lots of hand and wrist injuries don't require surgery.

Suck it up, buttercup, how do you think the rest of the world works? You don't work you don't get paid. If you are scheduled to make over $40 million per year on a supermax, then yeah you can't get too disappointed if that massive amount gets cut if you miss a third of the games because of a "sprained ankle". Enjoy your $25 mil per year and shut the hell up. Again, if the players are getting the upside then they should also carry the downside.

This isn't the NFL with CTE and other longterm issues to worry about from the players' perspective. If people are showing up specifically to see the stars play and they don't because of "load management", then they shouldn't get paid as much. And in my opinion a portion of the ticket price should be refunded if the NBA is going to continue to market players over teams.
 
Suck it up, buttercup, how do you think the rest of the world works? You don't work you don't get paid. If you are scheduled to make over $40 million per year on a supermax, then yeah you can't get too disappointed if that massive amount gets cut if you miss a third of the games because of a "sprained ankle". Enjoy your $25 mil per year and shut the hell up. Again, if the players are getting the upside then they should also carry the downside.

This isn't the NFL with CTE and other longterm issues to worry about from the players' perspective. If people are showing up specifically to see the stars play and they don't because of "load management", then they shouldn't get paid as much. And in my opinion a portion of the ticket price should be refunded if the NBA is going to continue to market players over teams.

"You don't work you don't get paid."

That's not what load management is. This is the coach and player figuring out how best to work. Kawhi will almost certainly play over 82 games this season. It's just a matter of which ones.
 
haha i saw that Jordan told the Hornets "you're paid to play 82 games a season"
 
By shortening the season, they will have to take appropriate salary cuts which is unlikely to happen.

As to players from other playing today, the subs from earlier days wouldn't have much of a chance. The good players and the stars would be fine. One thing people forget about in this argument is that the players from other eras would have the same training, etc., as today's players use. Thus, the "gap" wouldn't be as great as many think.

The game is also a lot different. There's basically no walking the ball up the floor, it's a lot of space and pace and transition stuff that wasn't really the thing then. Not that I doubt that guys like Wilt could hang today, but the philosophy is much different, and the game is called a lot tighter too.
 
"You don't work you don't get paid."

That's not what load management is. This is the coach and player figuring out how best to work. Kawhi will almost certainly play over 82 games this season. It's just a matter of which ones.

Right, but you are leaving out the third party involved, which is the League. The team and player have differing objectives than the League. Yet the League oversees the revenue sharing as the ultimate employer, and the League is who suffers when the visiting star player doesn't play that one game out of the season he was expected to play in that city. The team is just the middleman. So, to the extent it deems it a problem, the League has to create an artificial disincentive to the team and player's joint action.
 
they're getting paid for output, not input

resting Kawhi 10 or 15 or whatever games last year contributed to a championship
 
"You don't work you don't get paid."

That's not what load management is. This is the coach and player figuring out how best to work. Kawhi will almost certainly play over 82 games this season. It's just a matter of which ones.

Kawhi played 63 regular season games last year. He missed 19. So far as I know, he had no injuries at all. I should know. He was on my fantasy team. It was maddening. He misses games to avoid customs; misses games to get an oil change; to meet with his franchising & copyright lawyer; and finally, to slow-cook meat. H'e a cold-blooded killer millennial. I'd love him if he were still on the Spurs and not on my fantasy team though. Holy shit he's good.
 
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