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Nothing But Net: Buyer beware the NBA’s back-to-backs

It's a growing problem when the stars don't come out for a regular season game.

LeBron James, Kevin Love and Kyrie Irving sat out a game in Memphis with Cleveland playing on consecutive nights.

The NBA season is just more than a quarter of the way complete and already an issue has arisen that is normally reserved for much later in the year. And it’s not going to go away.

Players “resting” for entire games is a bit of a scourge but impossible to work around and even if it seems to be too early, teams already doing it.