{"id":567772,"date":"2026-03-27T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567772\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:16:10","slug":"as-the-nba-continues-to-deal-with-its-load-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/567772\/","title":{"rendered":"As the NBA continues to deal with its load management \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sports\/knicks-bench-karl-anthony-towns-down-stretch-of-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:As the NBA continues to deal with its load management problem and battles the players union over its 65-game rule for postseason awards eligibility, Towns said it\u2019s a point of pride that he suits up regularly. \u201cI damn sure haven\u2019t felt my best all year, all day. But I want to play. I love playing,\u201d he said.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;As the NBA continues to deal with its load management problem and battles the players union over its 65-game rule for postseason awards eligibility, Towns said it\u2019s a point of pride that he suits up regularly. \u201cI damn sure haven\u2019t felt my best all year, all day. But I want to play. I love playing,\u201d he said.&quot;}\" class=\"link \">As the NBA continues to deal with its load management problem and battles the players union over its 65-game rule for postseason awards eligibility, Towns said it\u2019s a point of pride that he suits up regularly. \u201cI damn sure haven\u2019t felt my best all year, all day. But I want to play. I love playing,\u201d he said.<\/a> \u201cI do believe in the philosophy that there may, especially at MSG with how expensive the tickets are, there may be a family or a young kid who has saved up all his money to watch me play that one night, and for me not to be available would be disrespectful to that kid and to that family. As long as I can play, I\u2019m going to be out there playing, hopefully give that kid a show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/27\/sports\/knicks-bench-karl-anthony-towns-down-stretch-of-loss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Post&quot;}\" class=\"link \">New York Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the NBA continues to deal with its load management problem and battles the players union over its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,78912,590,85],"class_list":["post-567772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-load-management","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}