AD would be a perfect fit lol. Why not bring in Mr Street Clothes himself at this point?

I went to the Nuggets-Pels game in October.

Some old guy said he wanted to throw me over the balcony because of my cheering. I put a little voodoo hex on them there in Ball Arena and foretold all of these injuries. Sorry not sorry.

Deandre Jordan would be playing meaningful minutes in 2026 if he was still on the Nuggets.

To soon man

Just cause I can’t push when I shit, you say I’m 4-6?

Not to be confused with the 6-8 weeks Bulls

AD looking better on a bell curve rn

Dog lmao it’s uncanny

Maybe by the playoffs they’ll be healthy

They’ll likely fall in the rankings, but they’ll be one of the scariest 6th seed (or whatever they are) in recent memory lol

I’m really hoping that Murray doesn’t get run into the ground by playing more minutes come playoff time. Hopefully adelman sticks to his normal minutes for Murray

23-10 is their best start in franchise history? That seems low

Back in the 70s/80s the 3 point line wasn’t something you worried about

driving and kicking requires your calves. 80s ball was just running and try to shoot fast.

Spacing and pace. More ground to cover. a lot of stop and go movements and that requires explosiveness.

Contrary to what the idiots here will have you believe, it is far more difficult and intensive to play defence in the modern NBA with all these advanced actions and more skilled players (and more of the more skilled players)

The 60s was when it was incredibly fast with over 130 possessions per team on average. But with no three point line pre merger and no pace/space until 2010s (with the 90s and 2000s prioritizing isolation and less team movement due to illegal defense rules and packed paint), we are only around 10 years into this new era of basketball where players are tasked with stop/starts, constant cutting/change of direction, and having to deal with closing out at all points around the perimeter for 82 games. Athletes’ joints are being overtasked more than ever before.

There’s 100 × the amount of off ball movement in today’s NBA than there was in the 80s and 90s, a lot of offense back then was dumping the ball off to the 3-5 and the play was ending with a make, free throws, or a defensive rebound. Kickouts were only really used if there was a double team or an offensive rebound leaving a spotted up shooter wide open when the defenders leave to grab the rebound.

And frankly, there were probably quite a few upper body injuries in the 80s and 90s that players played through and went unreported.

I’m sure the game has something to do with it, but makes you wonder about the courts or the shoes these days as well.

Lot more cutting and harsh movements. It’s like running straight vs side to side

the schedule definitely doesn’t help, the game has evolved so much yet they are still playing the same archaic 82 game schedule which just doesn’t seem viable in todays game

More skilled and athletic players and more ground to cover due to the 3pt line. Your average 6th man would be an all-star in the 80s/90s. Now imagine having to guard him and 5 other players better than him every single night for the entire game

Personally I feel like it’s the shoes.

Throw a pair of Chuck Taylor’s on the guys in the league now and it would change the way they can move so much.

The upside to today’s shoes is a lot less impact on joints because of cushioning and impact zones and shock absorbing technology.

The downside is players can stop, take off and change direction so much faster putting more stress on everything.

Special space-age floors made of “pain wood”

It’s not just the amount of possessions but the amount of off-ball movement has also increased. Can’t remember the study but it was something like players are traveling ~15% further distance per game than even 10 years ago.

yeah it’s not so much the full-court pace as the halfcourt and how much ground has to constantly be covered amd how much rapid change of direction there is. still a lot standing around on the half court in the 70s/80s

Besides the obvious increase in pace / the game getting much more physically demanding on the body, dude’s in the 70s and 80s also got injured constantly, the difference is they just played anyway and did worse damage to their bodies because they didn’t know better. Sports medicine was basically in the medieval ages compared to today.

There’s a reason the average career length for players is much longer now.

Pace + players are heavier 

Dillon Brooks?

Jamal is listed as “Probable with right ankle sprain” for tomorrow….. it just doesn’t end

Jamal’s too ethical to be the other Canadian guard. Only 50 pt scorer on 0 FGAs FTAs* lol 

That other Canadian guard has a lot of help.

Ryan Nembhard been balling lately, not sure Jamal can match him

I wouldn’t call Kelly Olynk a guard

Steve Nash 😈

49ers 🤝🏻 Nuggets

Being mining-themed teams whose entire roster will have missed extended time

And still off to the best start in franchise history

Time to trade Jokic for Booker!

Brother the Pacers have missed over 200 games due to injury this season ALREADY

The silver lining is they’ll ALL be back. If Jokic tore something it have obviously been doomsday for the season.

They dodged a bullet.

Jamal is probable with ankle injury

Getting there? We’ve passed them easily

Et tu timberwolves?

First play in team to beat the #1 seed might break social media.

We’ve already seen it 

the head mamba strikes

The fattest guy at the Y gets to play center

I would already bet all my money on Holmes over Zeke lol

I feel like injured jv and healthy saric are equally valuable

He injured his ankle

10 day contracts

The janitor gonna be getting minutes now

This is assuming the injured players come back 100% which is def not always the case

Even if there is a silver lining, you shouldn’t love this lol

I’m available

Not like this you don’t