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.