The NFL is going to expand to 17 regular-season games soon — a worthwhile change for a league that seems to be making all the right moves when it comes to business. People can’t get enough of its product — as flawed as it might seem every Sunday — so the NFL is giving the people what they want: more football.
The NBA, however, seems to have quite the opposite problem.
We in the sports media world have probably made a mountain out of the molehill that is “load management” but the narrative has become pervasive — the way the Clippers are handling Kawhi Leonard and Paul George will likely going to define the 2019-2020 regular season.