NBA executive Joe Dumars said the league is emphasizing an '82-game' mindset to its players and teams in an effort to curtail load management and increase participation among its top players over the course of the season.
Stephen A. Smith explains why the Pelicans should rest Zion so he can be healthy for the regular season.
"What it does show is guys may be not as efficient on the second night of a back-to-back. But in terms of injury and things like that, that we thought that it did prior, as we got more data, we realized that's not really holding up.
"That's part of it," Dumars said."It's never really one thing with any of this type of stuff. All of this matters ... the reaction to the fans, players, your broadcast partners. Absolutely, that's a part of it. To pretend that it isn't would just be dishonest." "The culture should be that every player should want to play 82 games," Dumars said."Obviously everybody's not gonna play 82 games. But everyone should wanna play 82 games. That's the culture that we are trying to re-establish right now.
"I think how you get to the point that we're at right now, you get here by not addressing it," Dumars said."You get here by slippage, by just slowly year after year after year. It doesn't happen like in one year. Just slowly over time you see all the slippage in missing of games during the regular season, the All-Star game devolving into what it did this past year. None of that happened just like after one year. And so at some point you have to stop the slide.
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