Power Puff Kawhi is out again - Load Management Folks, Folk You!

[truly]

I am fine with players resting well into the season but 7 games in and the Clippers haven't played since Sunday?

This sucks,i was really excited for the game.Oh well.

[WHITE_HOT_HEAT]

The face of the league. The “best player on the planet” needs to be playing National TV matchups when healthy. He owns it to the fans and the business.

Heavy is the head who wears the crown.

He is getting the praise and the recognition, he can’t just skip out on the grunt work.

Yes he can, and he will. Just how entitled are you? So because fans pay money to see him he's required to play every game? Maybe he should also come to their houses and sign their jerseys too? Lmao

Yes. It's known as working for your customer/client. Every other person does so! How effin entitled is he?

[Swish1906]

Again.....82 regular season games are a joke. Way too much. Around 62 are fine. You could erase every b2b easily.

But of course no one is going to do this because of the revenue.

Plane the amount of games and not the player.

[TheGOATWill]

I hate the load management stuff but the problem is that Raptors and Kawhi proved that it works. Obviously no one can stop a freak injury but managing minutes seems to directly correlate with healthier playoffs. The problem is the NBA season is so long that missing a few games doesn't mean much. Kawhi missed 22 games last year and raptors were still the second seed. Granted they play in the East, maybe if this costs the Clippers a couple of playoffs seeds and they end up in a bad matchup or lose homecourt in the second round, teams will start reconsidering load management.

Disclaimer. Load management requires Lebron leave your conference. Freak injuries to two other BMFs. Batteries not included. Other exclusions may apply.

[pwrshft99]

Suppose you have a son that is 10-15 years old maybe. He loves the NBA and Kawhi is his favorite player. You live in Chicago. Your son's favorite player comes to town once a year. Decent tickets, even just two, will run you atleast a couple of hundred bucks by the time you commute and park, etc.
The day before the game, it is announced that Kawhi is going to be out. Not because of injury, no !! He is just saving himself for more important games.

How pissed off are you going to be? What will be the impression left on your child??

[RivalGT7]

I'm not the one paying him millions, so I dont care at all... good on him if he wins another championship though.

[BBgun]

At the very least it seems like he's only sitting for b2b games now which wasn't the case in Toronto, although it's still early so we'll see.

As a Raps fan I'll attest to the fact that the regular season was extremely frustrating with Kawhi but once the playoffs began it was hard to stay mad for obvious reasons. So focus on the long game, Clippers fans, it'll be worth it in the end. Plus, you've got another MVP level player coming back soon so I wouldn't sweat it.

[Pennebaker]

Kawhi is unusually fragile. His body needs breaks to rest and recover. If you force him to play every game you will be risking major injury and shorten his career considerably.

[LeMasta]

Why don't they just play limited minutes? Are they more worried about their averages? If players can't play 10-20 minutes on back-to-back nights how can they call themselves athletes or competitors?

[levon]

There'd be far less outrage if he missed the Portland game after, you know, seeing how he felt after Milwaukee. But he's clearly looked at the schedule like weeks ahead and been like, I'm not playing against the harder team in the back-to-back, got it approved by the league, and reveals it a day or two before. That's whack.

[Jabroni Lames]

This is ridiculous. A 28 year old superstar in his prime has to sit out every fourth game so he doesn't fall apart? On top of only playing 30 mpg? Pitiful. The only reason it "worked" last year was because the Warriors were decimated by injuries. Kawhi is a part-time player at this point.

He's got a serious life long progressively getting worse injury...what's so hard to understand?

So why don't the Clippers and Kawhi come clean publicly and say that Kawhi has "a serious life long progressively getting worse injury"?

Because that will hurt ticket sales and sponsorship dollars. This is a bait & switch scam.

[Forte IV]

Blame the NBA for giving the Clippers 3 straight weeks of having b2b games. Most teams haven't even had 1 to this point. The schedule is ridiculous to start the year. The fact we are only a month into the season and the Clippers will play their third b2b next week is dumb.

[dhsilv2]

This is ridiculous. A 28 year old superstar in his prime has to sit out every fourth game so he doesn't fall apart? On top of only playing 30 mpg? Pitiful. The only reason it "worked" last year was because the Warriors were decimated by injuries. Kawhi is a part-time player at this point.

He's got a serious life long progressively getting worse injury...what's so hard to understand?

So why don't the Clippers and Kawhi come clean publicly and say that Kawhi has "a serious life long progressively getting worse injury"?

Because that will hurt ticket sales and sponsorship dollars. This is a bait & switch scam.

Umm...ok. Best of luck with that one.

[Jadoogar]

I hate the load management stuff but the problem is that Raptors and Kawhi proved that it works. Obviously no one can stop a freak injury but managing minutes seems to directly correlate with healthier playoffs. The problem is the NBA season is so long that missing a few games doesn't mean much. Kawhi missed 22 games last year and raptors were still the second seed. Granted they play in the East, maybe if this costs the Clippers a couple of playoffs seeds and they end up in a bad matchup or lose homecourt in the second round, teams will start reconsidering load management.

Disclaimer. Load management requires Lebron leave your conference. Freak injuries to two other BMFs. Batteries not included. Other exclusions may apply.

Yea not like they beat the Sixers and Bucks. They only played one series the whole playoffs.

[ATLTimekeeper]

Why don't they just play limited minutes? Are they more worried about their averages? If players can't play 10-20 minutes on back-to-back nights how can they call themselves athletes or competitors?

He is on record saying the regular season is just practice. I think he knows that they can sleepwalk to a top seed, they won't have homecourt against the Lakers even if they HAD homecourt against the Lakers, so there's no need to push for first. He wants to play for a long time, and so this is the only way his leg will hold up. I see no problem with it. Someone who saves themselves to play for the ultimate prize is competitive, he also leveraged his own team into blowing their future asset base just to compete for a title for the next two years. He clearly is as competitive on and off the court as it gets.

[thebigbird]

This is ridiculous. A 28 year old superstar in his prime has to sit out every fourth game so he doesn't fall apart? On top of only playing 30 mpg? Pitiful. The only reason it "worked" last year was because the Warriors were decimated by injuries. Kawhi is a part-time player at this point.

He's got a serious life long progressively getting worse injury...what's so hard to understand?

So why don't the Clippers and Kawhi come clean publicly and say that Kawhi has "a serious life long progressively getting worse injury"?

Because that will hurt ticket sales and sponsorship dollars. This is a bait & switch scam.

Exactly. The problem is that Kawhi and the clippers came out and said no load management this season. 8 games in and he has already missed two of eight games. It's dishonest.

[vbmeer]

As a NBA fan watching NBA games off of NBA4Free.com illegal live streams, I demand that I get what I deserve and have Kawhi play when I click that link and my pop-up blocker stops the malware.

[Forte IV]

He's got a serious life long progressively getting worse injury...what's so hard to understand?

So why don't the Clippers and Kawhi come clean publicly and say that Kawhi has "a serious life long progressively getting worse injury"?

Because that will hurt ticket sales and sponsorship dollars. This is a bait & switch scam.

Exactly. The problem is that Kawhi and the clippers came out and said no load management this season. 8 games in and he has already missed two of eight games. It's dishonest.

Stop spewing falsehoods. They never said there will be no load management. They said it would be game to game basis. They said Kawhi was healthy but never once said "oh no load management". You can be perfectly healthy and rest games. Yes it sucks he isn't playing but they didn't lie about it. The only dishonest person in this conversation is you.

[liamliam1234]

Suppose you have a son that is 10-15 years old maybe. He loves the NBA and Kawhi is his favorite player. You live in Chicago. Your son's favorite player comes to town once a year. Decent tickets, even just two, will run you atleast a couple of hundred bucks by the time you commute and park, etc.
The day before the game, it is announced that Kawhi is going to be out. Not because of injury, no !! He is just saving himself for more important games.

How pissed off are you going to be? What will be the impression left on your child??

"Won't someone please think of the children? "

[RoyceDa59]

Kawhi actually has a condition which is why he has to do load management. It's injury related and therefore shouldn't be fine worthy. He's legitimately saving himself for the playoffs like he did last year and we all know how that turned out.