在有關NBA休息球員的持續辯論中，達拉斯小牛隊老闆馬克·庫班（Mark Cuban）公開表示願意支持負荷管理，稱其為“有史以來最好的事情”。
“問題本質上不是負載管理，”古巴週一在波士頓對記者說。 “我認為球隊必須在何時進行負載管理上變得更聰明。我全都負責負載管理。比在常規賽中錯過一名球員更糟糕的是，他在季後賽中失蹤了。”
在洛杉磯快船隊對卡懷·倫納德（Kawhi Leonard）的處理中，負載管理主題在本賽季受到了最嚴格的審查。 衛冕的NBA總決賽MVP是在兩次背靠背的全國電視轉播比賽中舉行的，儘管NBA還宣佈倫納德（Leonard）approved骨肌腱受傷，並宣佈已批准他缺席這些比賽。
古巴人表示，車隊正在做出合理的決定，決定何時休假。古巴人的小牛上週六休息了克里斯塔普斯·波津吉斯（Kristaps Porzingis）。
庫班說：“這全都是數據驅動的。” “我們不會，'好吧，我們只是把聯賽和給球迷的飯票弄亂，只是因為它可能很有趣。我們花了很多錢，不僅是出於預測的原因，還有分析方面的花費， 所以我們知道自己有多聰明。
“愚蠢的事情是忽略科學。”
庫班指出，當球員每場比賽平均每分鐘上場時間更多並且在第四節中節省精力時，比賽質量就會降低。
波特蘭開拓者隊的後衛CJ McCollum和Damian Lillard上個月都表示，他們不想管理自己的上場時間，McCollum告訴俄勒岡人，“這樣做會讓你擺脫季後賽。”
勒布朗·詹姆斯（LeBron James）在論點的另一端。他上週表示，除非他受傷，否則他不會參加比賽。在週二擊敗鳳凰城太陽隊之後，洛杉磯湖人隊週三與金州勇士隊進行了首場背靠背比賽。
古巴人表示，雖然現在看到替補席上的球員可能令人沮喪，但一切都在季後賽中得到了回報。
古巴說：“實際上，在季後賽中，你的明星更多了。” “在季後賽中，更多的球員輪換時間較短，這是你想看到的，對吧？”
Amid the ongoing debate about resting players in the NBA, count Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban among those openly willing to support load management, calling it "the best thing to ever happen to the league."
"The problem isn't load management, per se," Cuban told reporters in Boston on Monday. "I think teams have to be smarter about when to load manage. I'm all for load management. Worse than missing a player in a [regular-season] game is missing him in the playoffs."
The load management topic has received the most scrutiny this season in the LA Clippers' handling of Kawhi Leonard. The reigning NBA Finals MVP has been held out of two nationally televised games that were part of back-to-backs, though the NBA also revealed a patella tendon injury for Leonard in announcing that it had approved his absence from those contests.
Cuban, whose Mavericks rested Kristaps Porzingis on Saturday as part of his ongoing return from a February ACL tear, said teams are making sound decisions when to give their stars time off.
"It's all data-driven," Cuban said. "We're not going, 'OK, let's just mess with the league and our meal ticket to fans to do something just because it might be interesting. We spend so much money, not just on analytics for predictive reasons, but also for biometrics so we know how smart we can be.
"The dumb thing would be to ignore the science."
Cuban pointed out that the quality of play was lower when players were averaging more minutes per game and saving their energy for the fourth quarter.
Portland Trail Blazers guards CJ McCollum and Damian Lillard both said last month that they don't want to have their playing time managed, with McCollum telling the Oregonian "you'll Kawhi your way out of the playoffs" by doing so.
LeBron James is among those on the other side of the argument. He said last week that he would not sit out a game unless he's dealing with an injury. The Los Angeles Lakers play their first back-to-back game Wednesday against the Golden State Warriors, following Tuesday's win over the Phoenix Suns.
Cuban said that while it might be frustrating to see players on the bench now, it all pays off in the postseason.
"You actually get more of your stars [in the playoffs]," Cuban said. "You get shorter rotations of more of the guys playing in the playoffs, which is what you want to see anyway, right?"
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