According to a report by Shams Charania of The Athletic, the NBA is trying to make sure teams’ star players play more games in 2023-24 than they have in recent years.
What started as Load Management (i.e. resting a player without an ailment) and has recently morphed into an unwieldy amount of long-lingering soft tissue injuries and ‘<x> injury management’ games, the NBA’s biggest stars are appearing in fewer games every season.
To correct this problem, the new Collective Bargaining Agreement includes a minimum-games-played threshold (65) to qualify for end of season All-NBA awards that often have immediate financial rewards tied to them and always have a lifetime of pride at stake.