The Dallas Mavericks are concerned about the health and well-being of their players. That’s why they take the matter of load management seriously. Mark Cuban recently reiterated his team’s stance on the matter. The Mavericks’ owner explained the benefits of load management to reporters earlier this week in Boston, where his team lost to the Celtics, 116-106, on Monday night.
“The problem isn’t load management, per se,” Cuban said, as reported by ESPN. “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.