Kendrick Perkins called it “BS.” David Fizdale’s word of choice was “crap.” Jalen Rose hates it, Doris Burke says it’s “ridiculous,” and Twitter Eggheads, for a solid week, have been “pissed off.” All ...

Hit 'em where it hurts. That seems to be the idea behind an idea first reported by The Athletic that would go after the overabundance of load management by tying NBA awards to games played for the ...

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. Why? And ...

The most poorly named term in the NBA has also become its most annoying: load management. Los Angeles Clippers head coach Doc Rivers told reporters Kawhi Leonard would be sitting out the first game of ...

Background The acute:chronic workload ratio (ACWR) is commonly used to manage training load in sports, particularly to reduce injury risk. However, despite its extensive application as a prevention ...

Correspondence to Dr Torstein Dalen-Lorentsen, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo 0863, Norway; torstein.dalen{at}nih.no The ...

Back in 2013, I asked Gregg Popovich if he had a term for when he rests his main guys. The crotchety coach was in one of his more whimsical moods. “No, we don’t have a name for it,” he began. “So if ...