 This didn't exist in the 80s and 90s. You think Charles Oakley cared about load management? No. So it's become a thing because there's more money involved now, and the more they play, the more they feel they should get paid. And the owners take a big chunk, and that's what the players' union exists for, for them to take what's rightfully theirs. Well, on a side note, Luka Doncic, not going to be in the Olympics. Slovenia did not qualify. They actually got smacked by Giannis' Greece team.