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Would you want your team's best player to risk being injured for 5 meaningless games after a 4 month gap in the season and then miss the entire next year with a shortened offseason?

Are the players really that fragile? If a guy is going to get hurt, he is going to get hurt. He can get hurt at home, at the club or at the beach. You can't protect them forever. If they are healthy, they should play. I have never been for resting or sitting stars, unless it is to punish them and to take money away.

I don't know how this mindset won out. Guys used to be admired for playing every game and as many minutes as they could. They would tough out bumps, bruises and injuries. Now they get to sit for no reason. I just don't get why it is a good thing..

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Posted by Rep520

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Posted on 5/27/20 at 1:02 pm to brmark70816

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Are the players really that fragile? If a guy is going to get hurt, he is going to get hurt. He can get hurt at home, at the club or at the beach.

John Wall, maybe.

Kevin Durant wouldn't have popped his achilles if he hadn't have rushed back from the partial tear.

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I don't know how this mindset won out. Guys used to be admired for playing every game and as many minutes as they could.

Because when you can't make the playoffs this year, it's far better to do what you can to guarantee a healthy Lillard going forward.

The Blazers have franchise money invested in him. It's just not smart to risk jeopardizing an investment of over 100 million on a game that can't get you into the playoffs.

And it's always been like that. Heck, you saw Krause and Reinsdorf want to slow MJ's recovery from the broken foot and that was 1986.

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