There is great debate about load management in the NBA but Kevon Looney of the Golden State Warriors definitely has made up his mind about it.
Speaking to Sportskeeda, Looney opened up about load management and his insistence on resisting it.
Looney told Mark Medina, via ClutchPoints:
“There were a lot of games last year where we would have back-to-backs and they would have four guys sitting. They would ask me, ‘Want to take this night off?’ I’d say, ‘No, I’m fine. I feel good.’”
“There were a lot of games last year where we would have back-to-backs and they would have four guys sitting. They would ask me, ‘Want to take this night off?’ I’d say, ‘No, I’m fine. I feel good.’”
Kevon Looney on the NBA’s new load management rules 🗣️
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Load management has become more and more popular for all NBA teams over the last few years.
It’s a tactic to preserve the physical health of players for the entirety of the long season.
But it’s been rubbing a lot of fans the wrong way and now the league is trying to do something about it.
They have recently passed new rules about sitting more than one superstar at the same time.
They are imposing serious financial punishments for teams that are sitting their players for no valid reason.
Load management doesn’t seem to be a problem for the 27-year-old Looney.
He played in 82 games in both of his last two seasons and has stayed free of serious injury despite that grind.
Many people claim that the league could do even more to limit load management.
They could shorten the season or prevent back-to-back games entirely as a way to help players rest.
The rules they just created should only be the start of the league’s plans to stop load management.
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