In the grand scheme of things, three days of rest is a short amount of time — yet it becomes a luxury during the grind of a long 82-game season, where even a day’s worth of rest is cherished and appreciated.
On the other hand, three days of rest can give way to the creation of narratives that are allowed to germinate and fester. Amid the chaos of the NBA trade deadline period, the Warriors found themselves as vulnerable as anyone in terms of speculation and drama, one that took the form of Kevin Durant’s media silence in the wake of Kristaps Porzingis being traded from the New York Knicks to the Dallas Mavericks.