With new policies and penalties, the NBA has made it clear that healthy players should be on the court.
No argument from the players, who insist they aren't interested in sitting.
Some don't like load management any more than the fans who wonder why some of the best athletes in the world so often need a night off. But they also want the league to understand that there are times — quite a few of them during Kawhi Leonard's lone season in Toronto — when they have to listen to their bodies or their doctors.
''I was coming from an injury and you have to know the details of the doctor,'' Leonard, now with the Los Angeles Clippers, said Monday.