Articles for Load Management

Will Braves first baseman Matt Olson be the last MLB Iron Man of the 21st century?
3 months, 1 week ago

Will Braves first baseman Matt Olson be the last MLB Iron Man of the 21st century?

New York Times  

It was 29 years ago this month that Cal Ripken Jr. showed us what a 20th-century Iron Man looked like. He’s well positioned — But it’s the number of games Olson has strung together, while playing defense at his position, that truly separates his streak from almost every other recent Iron Man streak. “I don’t think anybody wanted to find …

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NBA’s 65-game rule isn’t just about the awards race — and it isn’t going anywhere
9 months, 3 weeks ago

NBA’s 65-game rule isn’t just about the awards race — and it isn’t going anywhere

New York Times  

As the NBA and the NBPA worked through negotiations on a new collective bargaining agreement last season, exchanging meetings at their respective headquarters located just blocks apart in midtown Manhattan, the NBA pushed for a fix to get its star players on the court more often. Tyrese Haliburton, the Indiana Pacers’ All-Star point guard, called it “a stupid rule,” and …

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Hollinger: Is Cavs-Knicks II on the horizon? Plus, assessing NBA’s load management report
11 months ago

Hollinger: Is Cavs-Knicks II on the horizon? Plus, assessing NBA’s load management report

New York Times  

Who’s up for Cavaliers-Knicks II? To be clear, the league’s study excluded all payers who had a multi-game injury in the season in question — an interesting design choice, first of all, but also one that then limits the “Load management doesn’t work” conclusion further to exclude most of the league by the All-Star break. David Weiss, the league’s senior …

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Diving deep into data, the NBA, formally, says its numbers don’t back load management
11 months, 1 week ago

Diving deep into data, the NBA, formally, says its numbers don’t back load management

New York Times  

The NBA’s 180-degree turn on its policy toward load management now has hard data to support its change of heart. Chief among the findings in the 57-page report, which the league says was culled from data over the last decade from teams through the league’s electronic medical records system, along with IQVIA’s Injury Surveillance and Analytics team, which has worked …

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NBA 2023-24 fan survey results: Warriors, Celtics voted favorite team; Pelicans, Clippers worst
1 year, 2 months ago

NBA 2023-24 fan survey results: Warriors, Celtics voted favorite team; Pelicans, Clippers worst

New York Times  

The results are in! The NBA said it set total and average attendance records last season, but it seems like our respondents weren’t responsible for that. If you’re hoping for more NBA teams, our respondents are right there with you, as 69.4 percent of respondents said the league should expand. About 71 percent of voters said they haven’t bet on …

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Several NBA coaches not buying what Joe Dumars, league are selling on load management
1 year, 2 months ago

Several NBA coaches not buying what Joe Dumars, league are selling on load management

New York Times  

In a ballroom at the Peninsula Chicago Hotel last month, Joe Dumars had the NBA’s 30 head coaches sitting upright in their chairs, if not on the edge of their seats. Dumars, the league’s vice president for basketball operations, was at the annual coaches meeting to deliver findings of a study that were at odds with everything every person in …

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NBA’s sudden change of heart on load management is odd, but better late than never
1 year, 2 months ago

NBA’s sudden change of heart on load management is odd, but better late than never

New York Times  

The NBA’s 180 on load management is giving me whiplash. Five seconds ago, every available piece of science the NBA told us it had in its possession from its teams said – screamed – the same thing: players not only needed more time off but that the league would be derelict in its partnership with its players if it didn’t …

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Kawhi Leonard on new load management rules: ‘No league policy is helping me to play more games’
1 year, 2 months ago

Kawhi Leonard on new load management rules: ‘No league policy is helping me to play more games’

New York Times  

The fifth media day for the Los Angeles Clippers in the Kawhi Leonard era featured the usual theme of questioning about championship expectations, staying healthy and a sense of urgency. “I’m not a guy that’s sitting down because I’m doing a load management,” said Leonard, a two-time NBA Finals MVP. Leonard missed the last three games of the last postseason …

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Key NBA storylines as training camps open: Lillard, Harden trades; load management; more
1 year, 3 months ago

Key NBA storylines as training camps open: Lillard, Harden trades; load management; more

New York Times  

Amick: The most painful of waiting games is almost over, gentlemen. GO DEEPER From Harden to Dame to Giannis: Storylines to watch heading into a new season It’s been a little more than 100 days since the Nuggets’ Nikola Jokić finished off the Heat in Game 5 of the Finals, then took that celebratory pool plunge with worthy co-star, Jamal …

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Load management has frustrated NBA, fans and TV partners, but will new rules help?
1 year, 3 months ago

Load management has frustrated NBA, fans and TV partners, but will new rules help?

New York Times  

For the past several years it has not been clear if the NBA fully understood the damage that the league and players were creating as a result of the load management that was becoming more and more fashionable. When commissioner Adam Silver stood behind a podium last week to discuss the league’s new fight against load management, it was a …

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Chip Kelly doesn’t do load management. UCLA starters will play this week
1 year, 3 months ago

Chip Kelly doesn’t do load management. UCLA starters will play this week

LA Times  

A year later, “unavailable” was finally decoded. “Load management, that’s an NBA term,” Kelly said Monday. Asked immediately after UCLA’s 45-7 rout of Alabama State if running back Zach Charbonnet and quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson were injured, Kelly replied, “Unavailable.” Charbonnet did not play and Thompson-Robinson was taken out in the second quarter. “If you know Dorian Thompson-Robinson like I know …

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Why Cade Cunningham isn’t going to the FIBA World Cup: Load management
1 year, 4 months ago

Why Cade Cunningham isn’t going to the FIBA World Cup: Load management

New York Times  

LAS VEGAS — Like a few of his would-be Team USA teammates, Cade Cunningham looks and plays like a nearly perfect fit for the international game. He said Saturday that he is “pretty much there” when it comes to a full return to health, but explained it wouldn’t have been fair to Team USA, or himself, if he had been …

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Nets’ Mikal Bridges is more than NBA’s Iron Man; he’s determined: ‘I just want to play every game’
1 year, 8 months ago

Nets’ Mikal Bridges is more than NBA’s Iron Man; he’s determined: ‘I just want to play every game’

New York Times  

NEW YORK — Mikal Bridges was frazzled. “When we got traded over here looking at the schedule and was like, ‘Well if you do miss this game, you’ve already played one more game than them,’” Bridges said. “He’s not an injury-prone kid.” Aside from a preseason elbow injury his rookie year, which cost him some exhibition games, Bridges has never …

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NBA load management: Is it a problem? How do we know it works? Our experts discuss
1 year, 9 months ago

NBA load management: Is it a problem? How do we know it works? Our experts discuss

New York Times  

Call it “load management,” “rest” or “soreness,” but NBA starters and veterans are being held out of games more often and earlier in the season for precautionary measures than ever before. Here are the league’s rules on player resting, set in 2017 because the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors were sitting out large swaths of stars and starters in …

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NBA commissioner Adam Silver defends load management
1 year, 10 months ago

NBA commissioner Adam Silver defends load management

New York Times  

SALT LAKE CITY – NBA commissioner Adam Silver gave his annual All-Star Weekend press conference Saturday, addressing topics related to player load management, the league’s ticket sales and reaching a new collective bargaining agreement this year. Here’s what you need to know: Silver said there is “medical data” to support the current practice of load management throughout the league and …

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NBA, Players Association discussing tying awards to games played: Sources
1 year, 10 months ago

NBA, Players Association discussing tying awards to games played: Sources

New York Times  

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association have held talks about tying the league’s postseason awards to how many games players appear in during the course of that season, sources with knowledge of the talks told The Athletic. Silver said in July that he has talked to NBA teams and players about how load management could have an effect …

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