A Brutally Honest Conversation About Load Management | Adam Silver and JJ Redick 

All star game should be held in summer time, then you push back the in season tournament game to February. Hey jj also the comments are important too. People feel more connected if the nba was more accessible. Price wise, TV views, schedule management and the fans are involved as well. More jumbotron interactions. The technology we have should be embraced and used towards our next big Aspiration.

small typo on the thumbnail 🙂 @JJRedick

ADAM SILVER is a dirty filthy human being who allows players to skip 30% of their regular season games for “rest” purposes. It’s disgusting, I hope the streaming platforms quit the NBA until he is removed and it’s changed. Adam Silvers NBA is a fake product full of lies and brainwashing young kids to political ideas.

Would be better if he was black

@@ehofff😧

@@ehofffhuh? Don’t be a weirdo troll

also gotta give props to Adam Silver for coming on and willingly getting questioned about all this different stuff

Maybe he could keep that same energy for players? Because he’s never pushed back AT ALL on ANYTHING a player has ever said to him.

​@@aricrudd6579ever

@@aricrudd6579haha he can’t do that because the players won’t come on

@@aricrudd6579hmmm hard disagree. He most definitely has. He’s nicer about it with them

For real, he’s easily the best commissioner in all of USA sports

I think you are completely wrong on this take he has proven time after time that he doesn't do this regularly. Nor does he show a willingness to listen to opposin views he simple only does what the owners tell him to do. The only reason for why he changed this was because of the dollars involved that were lost by having every team doing this and players abusing it. Once the owners saw if hurt the bottom line it was scrapped. The reason other commissioners not doing this is for that very reason as well. They only care when they get told to care about it. The only power they have is the power annotated to them from them. That is why they answer to the owners the power dynamic is shifted and its not the commissioners making the decisions.

david stern built things so adam silver could walk in his shoes 😂dont compare the two david stern did far more for the nba

​@@archiveplug1819That has nothing to do with what he said...

@@siliziwencanywa1138how?

@@archiveplug1819 Dont give stern credit for what MJ did.

Players wouldn't be load managing under david stern.

Yes! it’s getting insufferable

Being a ref involves a ton of self interpretation, take away the ability to eject a player unless it’s for 2 flagrant fouls, intentional foul that leads to injury and anything that has to do with the physical fights with each other or the fans. “Taunting” is the sorriest excuse to eject someone 😂😂

The league caters incredibly hard to stars, they get calls no one else would. I think that’s wrong, just like terrible ejections you’re referencing- asking for more star protection would make the product even more unwatchable. Reasoning like “you can’t toss them bc we pay a lot to come see them at the games” will lead the league into even more manipulation of results - at that point can we even call it a sport. I do agree that I think coaching refs to make calls more judiciously across the board (not just with stars) is a good start

Cuz the nba is rigged. If you bet you see it. Or lie to yourself and pretend you don’t. Tim Donaghy went to prison for it. He was the fall guy, there’s many many more.

Or like when Giannis caught his own air ball and traveled but they didn’t call it. Terrible refs all around

Only way to stop load management is to reduce the amount of playoff teams but that would never happen

Pops strategy was actually minutes based load management not game based load management, that’s what people miss

you have to have a good bench tho to do that you know, so not all teams can really do it @@tobiojo10

They were the first to use Load Management and save Duncan for the Playoffs. Spurs were all about the Playoffs. They would rest players every game.

@@JimBrave-ri1oc yea but some teams if they dont play their starters 38min+ they wont make the playoffs lol

​@@mlixor Duncan was so good he would calm everyone and set the tone then get a 22-10 lead everytime after 8 minutes. Duncan is one of the top 5 Player Ever. He's way better than lebron. Duncan was so good he only needed to play 24 minutes. Then with the Bench players they would just play Don Nelson Offense. Top 7 Players ever are Jordan, Magic, Bird, Duncan, Hakeem, Shaq, Robinson.

almost enough respect to put on a shirt and tie... but not quite.

@@qbert5806 stop being old

Did you watch the clip? I did. Also, "unbiased" and "honest" are not the same thing. Plus, why would JJ come down on one side or the other and how would that affect his questions?

Being “unbiased” is a mythical illusion people want to believe actually exists

@@devilpistons1269 After reading various comments over the years, the majority of the people don't even understand the word ''biased'' means. They think they do understand but they misuse the word too often. Yes these are the people with voting rights. Democracy is a joke.

Did you even watch it you 🤡

Players load manage to prolong their careers netting them multi-million dollars. Let's stay on topic

@@Skillsvalin your comment should be the end all be all but there’s still discourse🤔

Idk about the inconclusive evidence silver has his talking points on. It'd be crazy to think that 3 games in one week for a month would cause the same amount of injuries as 5 games a week. I also think the idea of playing 20 less games per year prolongs your career. Sure it should give you some time tacked on the end of your physical abilities, but a full year? Contract? Meh. I'd assume there's more gained in not having those "extra" games causing the injuries which takes time off your career. Calling regular season games "extra" made me physically gag right there. I hate this crap but I completely understand the reasoning. Same as the spam 3pt shot

​@@benw7367it isn't that crazy if that team has a coach similar to Thibs that are too reliant on their starters or certain players

Could also go a soccer route or whatever league and have the games spread out over the entire year with various breaks in between- after a major tournament

Because you would then have some players that have just a month before preseason and others that have 4. Also you would be directly competing with the NFL for their entire season

NBA doesn't want to compete for ratings with NFL and NCAAF any more than they already do.

@@WoTMike1989 isn't this whats goin' on with international players, having a tournament every summer with their nt? (to the point nba teams not letting them go..)

@@georgemarco11 not every summer. Limited subset of players and half of them skip every other tournament.

Couldn't even come close to capturing the lost revenue

Not a bad idea but there would need to be multiple ones.

60% of the players would not want any fanmeeting that’s for sure

@@chillax9184 I think a good start would be addressing theses refs ejecting players for any form of emotion. I don’t understand how they want to force these players to play but eject them for simply staring down a player after dunking on them. The fans want that. Rick flair said it best “you need a good guy and a bad guy in entertainment”. We need emotion.

MOST star Players would come up with every excuse not to participate in that. Too many bench princesses who feel entitled to collect their money but want to bounce teams when things don’t go how they want or show up to as few games as possible. They would much rather dip out to cancun or vegas then show up for a day and hangout with everyday people who make them their millions. Us peasants must take our crumbs and say thank you

FACTS let these dudes show emotion.

Refs need to be given to the media just like the players. Let's see how they handle it

Twice!

Fouling out is fine, we don't want to see 50 free throws either and if one guy is fouling a lot then that's a skill issue. But ejections do need to be looked at, they give out techs way too easy.

Change the foul-out number to seven, or make it a one-shot tech at six or more. If Jokic, Giannis, Zion, Wemby, etc. get three fouls early in the second quarter, do we really want to see them on the bench? What purpose does it serve? It's usually the result of bad officiating, anyway - just like technical fouls! @@maxumis1

But injuries are far more rampant now with load management then they ever were in the old days. Almost as if keeping your muscles and ligaments in use is more beneficial then rest.

I agree and what if they pick a day that the favorite player is not playing? I have favorite players I want to go see. For example I want to see Ja play after his suspension is up if he not playing then i don’t want to be there unless it’s other stars on the opposite team if that makes sense

@@SelfPreservation6 exactly. Get a discount on the ticket proportional to the amount that the star takes up on the teams salary cap perhaps or the option of a full refund.

The players wouldn't be the only 1s losing money.

in that case there'll be no load management. you can't prove a player is not sick or something and he can't play...?

Yeah steph sat out against my home team last year. Didn't find out til the day of. Here I am taking my nephew to see steph, but steph needed "rest". Was some bullshit for sure. I'll never buy tickets to an NBA game again. Especially cause they upcharge for games with superstars. I could've went and seen the pacers for a 3rd of what I paid to see the warriors minus steph. Disgusting

It is not that easy. I mean salary will be less. Also players who wants to break some NBA records will be difficult for them since there will be less games.

@@llbuitre yes, all of that may be true (except the lower salaries). I am not convinced they will lose that much money as urgency benefits viewership, as well as makes games more exciting in general. Players will play harder. Show up to more games. There is, I'm sure, some penalty but I don't think it's going to fundamentally harm their bottom line that much. The records thing is fair. That's the tough one imo

I hate load management all together