Kerr said that if the playoff schedule were more compressed, he might be more inclined to adopt the Spurs model. But as it stands, he has no reason to tweak his approach.

“The fact is, once the first round gets under way, it’s like days of rest,” he said.

Consider that during their championship run last season, the Warriors played their 21 playoff games over the course of 59 days. It obviously helped that they swept the New Orleans Pelicans in their first-round series, which gave them extra time off. But the Warriors would have had ample opportunity to recover regardless.

Now, compare that two-month marathon with what the team has endured in recent weeks. By the end of the regular season, they will have played their final 21 games in just 37 days. The point being, the Warriors will quite likely be more rested during the playoffs than they ever were during the regular season.

Kerr acknowledged that he would consider finding opportunities to sit veterans like Shaun Livingston, Andrew Bogut and Andre Iguodala — once Iguodala returns from an ankle sprain — in the coming weeks. As for Curry, Thompson and Draymond Green? That does not seem to be a part of the plan. Green flatly rejected the notion that he would take a night off.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Green said. “I’m 26. Someone may rest, I don’t know. But I’m not.”

The Spurs, on the other hand, have been a model of geriatric prudence for much of the last decade. On Friday, the Spurs announced that Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili would not play Saturday against the Oklahoma City Thunder or Monday against the Memphis Grizzlies. The reason? Rest.

Nothing that Coach Gregg Popovich does with the Spurs, Kerr said, has any effect on how he deals with his own team. Besides, Kerr said, the Spurs are older than the Warriors.