{"id":466857,"date":"2025-10-29T08:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=466857"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:30:45","slug":"michael-jordan-slams-load-management-it-shouldnt-be-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/michael-jordan-slams-load-management-it-shouldnt-be-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jordan slams load management: \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be needed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1182\" data-end=\"1528\"><strong data-start=\"1182\" data-end=\"1200\">Michael Jordan<\/strong> took aim at the NBA\u2019s modern <strong data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1249\">load management<\/strong> trend during NBC\u2019s <em data-start=\"1269\" data-end=\"1299\">\u201cMJ: Insights to Excellence\u201d<\/em> series, saying players should always honor fans who pay to watch them play. \u201c<strong data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1511\">I never wanted to miss a game \u2014 it was an opportunity to prove something and to impress the guy who worked hard to afford a ticket<\/strong>,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1530\" data-end=\"1847\">He recalled pushing through a <strong data-start=\"1560\" data-end=\"1578\">sprained ankle<\/strong> early in his career and famously playing through illness during the <strong data-start=\"1647\" data-end=\"1677\">1997 NBA Finals \u201cFlu Game\u201d<\/strong>, scoring <strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1700\">38 points<\/strong> to lead Chicago past Utah. \u201c<strong data-start=\"1729\" data-end=\"1833\">You have a duty to show up \u2014 even if you\u2019re sick or tired. Once you\u2019re out there, emotion takes over<\/strong>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1849\" data-end=\"1960\">Jordan\u2019s remarks reignited debate over the balance between player health and fan expectations in today\u2019s NBA.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1962\" data-end=\"2040\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jordan took aim at the NBA\u2019s modern load management trend during NBC\u2019s \u201cMJ: Insights to Excellence\u201d series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":322766,"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-466857","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\/2023\/03\/Michael-Jordan-1.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466857","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=466857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466857"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=466857"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=466857"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=466857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}