Inside the Raptors’ load-management approach to Kawhi Leonard’s season Globe_Sports
Fans criticized the team for coddling Leonard. They griped about millionaire athletes taking nights off. They’d groan when the list of inactive players – shown on the Jumbotron before every game at Scotiabank Arena – had Leonard’s name on it.
“It feels a lot better than when I started the season. There was a little spell where it kind of plateaued but everybody brought their minds together and we figured out a way and now things are looking good and I’m feeling good.” Kobe Bryant told The Athletic the only time he took a game off is “when I couldn’t walk . . . your seasons in your career go by really, really, quickly. So, you want to make sure you don’t miss any of those moments. The other part about that is there are kids in the crowd and families in the crowd . . . this will be the only time they get a chance to see you. They save up their hard-earned money to watch you perform. So, if you can walk and perform, get there and perform.
Load in sports means the volume of exercise multiplied by its intensity. And recovery varies greatly from sport to sport. A baseball season is 162 games long, while marathon runners usually only do two marathon races a year. The NBA is right in the middle with an 82-game season. While recovery also varies from player to player, Brewer said the nervous system, “which is what keeps people fast and responsive and reactive and which fires the muscles,” takes about 24 to 36 hours to bounce back. The actual muscular system can take 48 hours to recover.Players nursing injuries, he said, are of particular concern. If an athlete plays hurt, their body will compensate for the injury, putting double the pressure on other parts of the body.
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