Washington • When the NBA pushed the season start date up by nearly two weeks, there was a collective exhale: The league had been looking to get rid of some of the tougher quirks of the schedule, including teams playing four games in five nights.
But for everything, there’s a tradeoff. And one of the hidden costs, the Utah Jazz (16-24) have come to realize, is paradoxically that while there’s more rest in between games, sometimes there’s less time to practice.
There might have been a time where the space between a Sunday game in Miami and a Wednesday game in Washington would mean some extra time off for players.