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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 3183454, member: 833"]
Age and wear and tear catches up with all of us.  The Warriors have averaged over an extra 20 games a year for the last 5 years.  That is a lot of extra games for Durant, Curry, Thompson, Green, Iguodola, and Livingston, and a lot of those were 40 minute games for the first 4 of that group.

If I was a top tier free agent, I would demand a 30-32 minutes per game cap in my contract, and at least 5 games off during the season.  Fatigue is cumulative, and the injury risk spikes when the minutes get really high.  Form and body control get weaker with extreme fatigue, and that is when injuries occur.  Durant's big injury led to a catastrophic injury that could cost him $100 million and a spot in the history books as one of the greatest of all time.  I am sure that Thompson's knee injury was indirectly caused by his hamstring injury.

Kidd would drive me crazy with the way he rode Antetokuomnpo.  Budenholzer cut him back 4 mpg, and he was much more effective and he is going to be productive longer.  Kerr is OK with his minutes management, although he threw it out the window in the playoffs.
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