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The Jazz have three World Cup players on their roster. Here’s how they’re planning to manage their load.

For about six weeks, from the beginning to August to September 15, Rudy Gobert, Donovan Mitchell, and Joe Ingles traveled the world playing basketball.

Perhaps Mitchell’s Team USA flew the most miles, heading from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, then embarking on the 15 hour flight to Australia, where they played in Melbourne and Sydney. That was all before the FIBA World Cup began, and from there, they traveled to four different cities in China during the course of the tournament before flying back.

But that’s not to discount the load on Gobert or Ingles, who also went through weeks of warmup games, and then went further in the tournament than Team USA, eventually playing each other in a third-place game that France won.