Hope, they enjoy him every other game
Why do many on here assume that it was Kemba's decision to sit out "every other game," and not the decision of the medical team and Danny Ainge, who had just seen Kawhi Leonard win a title through "load management?"
At the Celtics' Media Day at the beginning of last season, Kemba made it clear he wasn't going to rush into things and was going to do what was best for his health. Toward the end of the year, he was feeling good and made a few comments that the medical staff was preventing him from doing back-to-backs. So it seems like a little of both.