Load management has been a dirty word in the NBA ever since Gregg Popovich started resting his starters during regular season games to keep the San Antonio Spurs fresh for their 2010s championship runs. These days, most of the NBA has realized the chase for a ring is a marathon, not a sprint, and it doesn’t benefit anyone to run players into the ground during the dog days of the season.
Not every NBA player wants to take games off, though. There were 11 players who finished the 2024-2025 regular season playing 82 games. These players range from rookies who are still teenagers to a future Hall of Fame
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