One of the many important changes in the new NBA collective bargaining agreement are efforts to further reduce the number of back-to-back games NBA players play. Those contests often feature sloppy play from tired players just looking to make it out of the game without an injury, and have become a talking point in recent weeks as more and more players sit out of the first or second night of the sequences in order to preserve their health.
Scott Cacciola of the New York Times wrote a story on back-to-backs, including details on players thoughts on those games, how to best prepare for them, and how NBA teams’ strategies for dealing with them have changed over the years.