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A Game Within a Game: How NBA Stars Rest During Games

In the era of load management and resting worn-out players, the NBA’s smartest stars have learned to rest during games

Spencer Young
Basketball University
7 min readSep 4, 2021

IN 2018, WITH no second superstar to ease his Herculean workload, LeBron James played all 82 games for the first time in his career, while also leading the league in minutes.

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Spencer Young
Basketball University

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