Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors (newly minted) vice president of player health and performance, Alex McKechnie, first formulated a plan for managing his workload throughout the 2018-2019 season. Kawhi was working his way back from an injury that had kept him sidelined for the better part of a year and that had been at the center of his soured relationship with the San Antonio Spurs.
It was a situation that the league as a whole could look at and accept with at least a bit of understanding. The careful implementation of that load management strategy saw success at the highest level, as Kawhi led the Raptors to their first-ever NBA championship.