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This was a dope segment, @Rjeff24. It really underscores how important it is for NBA Stars to play in games when they are available: pic.twitter.com/1hyLzFyMsn

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Blame the owners as well.

Did players in the 90’s get hurt as often as current day players? If so Could it be because their bodies are used to playing more often.

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Tha Boss said Did players in the 90’s get hurt as often as current day players? If so Could it be because their bodies are used to playing more often.

There was a story on this a few years back and trainers and others were saying injuries especially lower body ones are more prevalent now and blamed it on current day players playing, practicing, training, year around and never taking breaks in offseason. I think even MJ's trainer said yeah MJ may have wanted to go full throttle after the season ends but he would make him chill for at least 3 weeks because he knew if MJ didn't, his body would give out at some point on him

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Ok so it's simple...... to much playing....

AAU high school prep and personal trainers....

I said this to my friend kids play way too much and by the time they hit professional they got the knees of a 35 year old vet

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Pop started this almost 20 years ago cutting his players minutes now it turned into missing games

The media is to blame for this sh*t because they diminished the importance of the regular season

The real question is why wont they lower the games in a season to 60 and up the minutes to 15 a quarter

buck1623 said The real question is why wont they lower the games in a season to 60 and up the minutes to 15 a quarter

Less revenue

buck1623 said The real question is why wont they lower the games in a season to 60 and up the minutes to 15 a quarter

Why 15?

Simp Hand Weak said Pop started this almost 20 years ago cutting his players minutes now it turned into missing games

This

SPdaGOAT said The media is to blame for this sh*t because they diminished the importance of the regular season

You can blame the fans too.The media told them only rings matter and they dumbass believed it and ran with it too.

i do too

the Clipper players be lowkey mad at that sh*t

why and pg wanna play back2backs but the team wont let them

these team doctors want u to sit for any fukkin thing

Listen to the latest episode of basketball Illuminati. They talk to sport medicine director of the nfl nba or some sh*t and he explains a lot sh*t

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Dman4900 said Ok so it's simple...... to much playing.... AAU high school prep and personal trainers.... I said this to my friend kids play way too much and by the time they hit professional they got the knees of a 35 year old vet

this is it. kids are playing on their high school team and MULTIPLE AAU teams. those AAU tournaments play a MINIMUM of two games a day now, max three. back in the 2000's you could play up to four or five games. that stuff adds up.

these players are also working with these trainers that are giving these guys more bounce, more quickness more speed, more strength and they're doing this at an early age. there's only so much a body can take. and these nba trainers and doctors can see that.

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I didn't know Stockton was durable like that, that's crazy

ddash said This You can blame the fans too.The media told them only rings matter and they dumbass believed it and ran with it too.

True

MJ last 3 season with the bulls he didn't even miss a game during that 3peat

That's crazy

On the Wizards
"40-Year-Old Michael Jordan Played All 82 Games And Averaged 37.0 Minutes Per Game Which Would Lead The NBA In The 2022-23 Season. Michael Jordan averaged 37.0 minutes per game as a 40-year-old. This is enough to lead the league in minutes this season."

Richard left his wife at his wedding for an all male crew

There PLENTY of blame to go around.

Owners, players, trainers, media, coaches. All parties are responsible in a major way.

The reality is the league is devaluing it's own regular season product by letting this go on. There's too many games, it's that simple. They need to start going toward an NFL/college football model. No team should play more than 3 times a week. No 4 games in 7 nights. The regular season should go from the beginning of November to the end of April. Playoffs should go from May through June. Teams should start camp a month before the season, and every team should have no basketball activity for 3 months (July through September).

That's a six month regular season, so roughly 26 weeks of basketball, plus a week off for all star the first week of Feb (since the Superbowl is now the 2nd week of Feb). Every team plays every other team a minimum of once at home, and once on the road, totaling 58 games. Teams in the division double up so thats 8 more division games, thats 66 games. That means 25 weeks x 2.64 games per week= 66 game regular season.

Figure out how to play the entire playoffs between May 1 and June 30. Thats 60 days. If you can't do that wtf are we doing?? The first round doesn't need to be 7 games. Make that bi*ch 3. Second round, make it 5, and then conference and NBA finals make them 7 games each.

I don't want to hear about revenue. Make the ticket prices higher, charge more for the TV deals. The NFL makes the most money with the least number of games. And the reality is that an average NFL ticket price is way higher than the NBA, and they have way more viewers at home. If the NBA brought that sense of occasion to each game, they could increase regular season tv viewership and people would be more willing to pay a higher price to go to a game. They get 50/60k people paying$500 on average to go to a regular season NFL game.

Sweet Daddy P said Richard left his wife at his wedding for an all male crew

You left your kids and stay with your mom’s.

I like it. It's a team game and it should be next man up if the stars are out for w/e reason. The graphic up top says 53 players played all 82 games back in 1991... there were 27 teams. 12 players per. That's about 16% of the players that made it through to play the full season. It's not a great percentage to start with. Let all them dudes earn their checks. It's a good way to see all the players actually play too and see who can do what and who can't