Charles Barkley rips load management in NBA: People work in the steel mill every day



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Charles Barkley rips load management in NBA: People work in the steel mill every day

Charles Barkley is not a big fan of the load management trend in the NBA as he has a hard time understanding how players who fly private and have the best possible conditions cannot play basketball for three or four days a week.

In recent times, there has been a lot of talk regarding the load management trend in the NBA as pretty much every night there is a star player missing a game due to load management. “Wait a minute, you gonna make $70M and you can’t play basketball 3 or 4 days a week?' They fly private.

They got the best medical stuff ever created. People working in the steel mill every day, I’m pretty sure they tired too, but they go to work every day," Barkley said on ESPN's First Take. per Legion Hoops.

Barkley, Kendrick Perkins rip the load management trend

Players from the older generations are often very critical of the load management trend in the NBA.

Just last week, former NBA champion Kendrick Perkins sounded off on NBA teams often resting their star players. Also, Perkins revealed that the players from the older generation consider this generation of NBA players to be very soft.

“First of all, this is what you sign up for. You signed up to get paid top dollar and to play the game of basketball, and to be available. To be available. That’s not asking too much. It’s very disrespectful to the fan base, but it’s also disrespectful to all the players that paved the way for guys today to be in the position that they‘re in, for us getting paid top dollar to go out there and hoop every single night.

I hear all the old school guys, all the guys that played for us, they call our league soft. And not just from a physicality standpoint, but from a mental standpoint. And, guys today, when it comes down to their mental toughness, are softer than funeral home musical," Perkins said on ESPN's First Take last week.

Meanwhile, the NBA doesn't consider this to be a problem and there likely won't be any action taken regarding this matter.