Michael Jordan (🐐) shares his thoughts on load management.

[FunkDoc1112]

Nobody reads you dudes like we do . You lying and dikkriding

One 82 game season in his career , Jordan not only a better basketball player he’s more durable

Now go throw some shyt at the wall in anger

Take up your illiteracy and inability to do math with your damn self. And I noticed you tried to pass off the 62 games in 2012 as missing a lot of games but that was a 66 game season.

So...

62/66 = 94%
76/82 = 93%
77/82 = 94%
69 / 82 = 84%
76/82=93%
74/82 = 90%
82/82= 100%

516/558 total = 92.5%

You STUPID motherfukker

 

[god shamgod]

Take up your illiteracy and inability to do math with your damn self. And I noticed you tried to pass off the 62 games in 2012 as missing a lot of games but that was a 66 game season.

So...

62/66 = 94%
76/82 = 93%
77/82 = 94%
69 / 82 = 84%
76/82=93%
74/82 = 90%
82/82= 100%

516/558 total = 92.5%

You STUPID motherfukker

69 is not 90% of 82 and that was in Cleveland groupie faggit

And he only played one 82 game his whole career. Just pointing out your dikkriding lies

 

[Red Money]

the modern NBA player covers more miles per season than ever before. The demands are simply greater. That’s not an opinion. That’s a statistical fact.

The 90s are the damn stone ages compared to how offense is today.

NBA got a weird mentality....then put in guys or get guys that can handle the higher mileage if they can't adjust.

Couldn't imagine NFL teams allowing that mentality of complaining about more QBs being runners these days taxing defenses. If the match up ain't right limit the stars minute and put in someone else like the NFL.


But then again NBA is a league where top guys can check themselves into games.

 

[FunkDoc1112]

69 is not 90% of 82 and that was in Cleveland groupie faggit

And he only played one 82 game his whole career. Just pointing out your dikkriding lies

I didn't say he played 82 games every season you illiterate fakkit. I said from the beginning that he played at least 90% of his games a year. I got 2015 wrong but ONE season out of 15 doesn't negate the point and even with that included he still played in 1143 out of 1214 possible games (94.1%) in his career up until 2019. 77 game average but oh, he's the face of load management

 

[Remote]

NBA got a weird mentality....then put in guys or get guys that can handle the higher mileage if they can't adjust.

Couldn't imagine NFL teams allowing that mentality of complaining about more QBs being runners these days taxing defenses. If the match up ain't right limit the stars minute and put in someone else like the NFL.


But then again NBA is a league where top guys can check themselves into games.

NBA fans complaining about players not appearing in 82 games is like MLB fans complaining about pitchers not throwing 25 complete games.

You guys are just going to have to accept that things have changed.

Or keep sitting on that recliner, shouting at the tv.

No amount of money is going to change the fact that athletes need to care for their bodies and recover. It’s like sleep. You need 7-8 hours. It doesn’t matter if they pay you $50M a year or $50,000.

 

[VegetasHairline]

NBA fans complaining about players not appearing in 82 games is like MLB fans complaining about pitchers not throwing 25 complete games.

You guys are just going to have to accept that things have changed.

Or keep sitting on that recliner, shouting at the tv.

No amount of money is going to change the fact that athletes need to care for their bodies and recover. It’s like sleep. You need 7-8 hours. It doesn’t matter if they pay you $50M a year or $50,000.

Most of these pitchers can't even make it through 6 innings the majority of starts.

 

[GilSho]

Load management babble in 2025.

Defending is far more taxing on the body compared to 30/40/50 years ago.

And the poster children of load management in Kawhi and Embiid actually need it because of the chronic and career-threating issues with their knees.

 

[Cladyclad]

MJ broke his foot his second year. He wasn't on load management. He refused to sit out when they tried to keep him from playing.
You're just wrong.

He clearly was on load management that season

 

[NYC Rebel]

Load management babble in 2025.

Defending is far more taxing on the body compared to 30/40/50 years ago.

And the poster children of load management in Kawhi and Embiid actually need it because of the chronic and career-threating issues with their knees.

This

 

[Field Marshall Bradley]

Mike so full of shyt…. The interview doesn’t provide real context and since fans are stupid, you get threads like these… The game is faster paced not… Sure you have 3 or 4 guys who can autonomously sit out a game or 2, but load management comes from the executive level more often than not, because it provides a greater rate on their return… Players hardly ever get to decide to sit or not….. I’m to remember when Kraus made his ass sit down for the rest of a season….

 

[threattonature]

Load management babble in 2025.

Defending is far more taxing on the body compared to 30/40/50 years ago.

And the poster children of load management in Kawhi and Embiid actually need it because of the chronic and career-threating issues with their knees.

I'm actually not against load management but my question about that graph is do they have one that breaks it down on average per player. I say that because starters in today's game play less minutes compared to the past. With less minutes that leaves room to run harder and faster during their time on the court so the amount of ground covered could be a product of that as well as play style.

 

[Red Money]

Load management babble in 2025.

Defending is far more taxing on the body compared to 30/40/50 years ago.

And the poster children of load management in Kawhi and Embiid actually need it because of the chronic and career-threating issues with their knees.

Maybe they should retire...

....not like kawhi and embiid are always healthy come playoffs. Availability is the best availability and I would have moved on from them... especially since they ain't cheap players. But they both got extensions, lol.


The standard is 1997 Jordan at 33 milly which is 66 milly today for a highly available two way player that was MVP, scoring champ, 1st team all NBA & 1st team all defense.

 

[Red Money]

Mike so full of shyt…. The interview doesn’t provide real context and since fans are stupid, you get threads like these… The game is faster paced not… Sure you have 3 or 4 guys who can autonomously sit out a game or 2, but load management comes from the executive level more often than not, because it provides a greater rate on their return… Players hardly ever get to decide to sit or not….. I’m to remember when Kraus made his ass sit down for the rest of a season….

Jordan was an owner and in those rooms....

 

[mbewane]

Facts: Load management was NOT an organizational practice in MJs era, period.

Facts: Folks in here KNOW it’s organizations and analytics geeks in their offices pushing load management in THIS era yet they will still “blame the players.”


Looking at who these fools are giving attention to IN HERE is proof positive that nba fans are dumb asses, more interested in living out and carrying their same brand of messageboard or social media routines of attacking players than speaking with any sliver of nuance.

Facts: who knew early MJ was a nutcase. I actually sided with the Bulls management wanting him to slow down coming off that gruesome broken foot but they were, like all of us AT THAT TIME, learning something about young MJ. Dude is the supreme outlier. You used a broken foot MJ suffered to talk about load management.

Just watched a part of the post-game show with Melo Vince and T-Mac and since they kind of were in both eras before and during load management they indeed make more nuanced and interesting points tbh.

 

[DrexlersFade]

Mike so full of shyt…. The interview doesn’t provide real context and since fans are stupid, you get threads like these… The game is faster paced not… Sure you have 3 or 4 guys who can autonomously sit out a game or 2, but load management comes from the executive level more often than not, because it provides a greater rate on their return… Players hardly ever get to decide to sit or not….. I’m to remember when Kraus made his ass sit down for the rest of a season….

@Art Barr