{"id":463992,"date":"2025-10-11T19:22:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=463992"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:22:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T17:22:51","slug":"allen-iverson-blasts-load-management-rest-me-at-practice-not-during-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/allen-iverson-blasts-load-management-rest-me-at-practice-not-during-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Iverson blasts load management: \u201cRest me at practice, not during games\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"746\" data-end=\"975\">NBA legend <strong data-start=\"841\" data-end=\"858\">Allen Iverson<\/strong> ripped today\u2019s <strong data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"893\">load management<\/strong> trend, saying he\u2019d never accept being benched for rest during his playing days.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"977\" data-end=\"1169\">\u201cCan you imagine somebody telling me, \u2018We\u2019re going to rest you tonight\u2019? What do you mean, rest me? It\u2019s a game\u2026 You want to talk about practice? Rest me tomorrow at practice,\u201d Iverson said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1171\" data-end=\"1309\">His remarks reignite the ongoing debate over <strong data-start=\"1216\" data-end=\"1250\">player rest vs. fan experience<\/strong>, one of the most polarizing issues in modern basketball.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1360\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBA legend Allen Iverson ripped today\u2019s load management trend, saying he\u2019d never accept being benched for rest during his playing days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":383227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-463992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/04\/allen-iverson-ii.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463992"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=463992"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=463992"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=463992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}