Lionel Hollins: It’s the travel that’s an issue

Brooklyn Nets coach and former NBA All-Star player Lionel Hollins says the road travel schedules in the NBA are what need to be changed.

Hollins said Friday that the best way to ease the burden on players is to spread out the schedule to avoid the middle-of-the-night flights.

“There are so many more back-to-backs and in-and-out travel, which wears on a player as much as playing 82 games,” Hollins said a day after taking a 14-hour flight from China. “I don’t see 82 games being changed. At least in my lifetime.”