Extended rest = more injuries. Make it make sense Silver.

Let’s abolish the off season then and restart the season a week after the finals. That should avoid injuries even further.

“For every day you spend in bed, it takes three days to recover.”

That’s what I tell the lazy, to their face, when they are ill.

You and me are not the same, Adam.

Which players aren’t getting big enough loads Adam?

Need clarification on what an “appropriate load” is

He’s got a point though, I remember a star player saying that sitting on the bench for awhile can lead to injury so he does whatever he can to keep his body warm (like putting on pads or putting his warmups on)

I get that people are going to immediately laugh at this as it does sound weird, but do we have any actual statistics that proves that what he’s saying is wrong?

It truly is fascinating seeing the disparity in how people are interpreting this article based solely on how they feel about Adam Silver

I think the 65 game rule is fine, given that you’re allowed to appeal things in some situations. I certainly wouldn’t get employee of the month at the warehouse if I missed that many days of work.

Both can be true. Too much playing means your body is stressed and sore and already slightly injured so big injuries are more likely.

Long rests or consistent resting throughout the year then ramping up into intense basketball every other day in the playoffs and basically going straight into it has been causing alot of injuries. Aaron gordon, jdub, and in prior years kawhii with his load management to “stay healthy” then not playing again after an injury in just a couple playoff games.

Theres right ways and wrong ways to do everything. I think we should either change this rule to add a minutes mark players can get to too, or switch it to only exclude players from DPOY, MVP, ALL-NBA First team. Let them be eligible for second and third team regardless of games played and let the voters decide if 50 Haliburton games were more important than 70 Nickeil Alexander Walker games that year or something

Honestly this lines up with sports science literature.

The half baked analogy is that despite not having pad rugby has a lower rate of severe injury because people are more invested in protecting their bodies.

And that in the nba, people lean into a play style that leads to more injuries because they assume the rest/load management will set their bodies right.

Is all star weekend still worth having?

Don’t give a fuck if players gets injured. The rule helps mitigates the number of times a people buy a ticket to see a player who ends up load managing that game.

Having to play 65 of 82 games to qualify for an award really isn’t a huge ask. I wish I could get away with work attendance like that and get raises and promotions.

Make them play 365 games then you fucking vampire ass looking bitch

Kareem in the ‘75 season:

30 ppg (ranked 3rd)

14 rpg (5th)

3.3 bpg (1st)

.513 FG% (4th)

But he played in only 65 games, so he wasn’t named to an All-NBA team because voters thought he missed too much time. Somewhere between that and the stupidity of most current superstars missing >20% of the season and being named 1st-team NBA is where we should be, but not where it currently is.

Dudes get paid millions to play a game that many wish they could and they’re bitching about working 82 days out of the year as if their job is really hard labor. What a joke.

Less games = less revenue for stadium owners = never gonna happen

lol. A week off causes more injuries. Bullshit. You see more injuries after the all star break because teams are still trying. By the end of the season half the league is trying as hard to lose as it is to win. You don’t get “injured” as much in minutes where sacrificing your body for a win doesn’t matter. 

Taking the appropriate load on my days off. Interesting never thought of that

Mitch’s pinky aside, who has been injured with more rest?

I hope the Hague is taking notes on this, because they’re waiting for you Adam Silver

seasonal rewards are dependent on your performance and availability during the season. you can argue semantics of whether they should be required 60 vs 65 games but that’s whatever.

bigger issue is reducing amount of back to backs.

After the all star break when teams start tanking

Data is funny without context

The problem with this debate is that everyone wants a single answer when different players have different bodies.

If you start a game and leave it with a legitimate injury it should count even if you don’t make it to 20 minutes. Other than that it’s fine.

All I’m gonna say is if Adam Silver genuinely thinks it’s a great rule, keep that energy and don’t waver.

That being said, not sure about his reasoning though. He isn’t fully wrong, but there’s obviously more to it than just that.

It’s almost not even worth asking him the questions. They’re not going to reduce the number of games, and they want stars to play every night which they believe the 65 game rule helps with. The league values money over anything.

“Taking injuries out of the equation”

Avoiding injuries is literally the point of load management.

The owners don’t want it, neither do the players (decreased paychecks)

Depaite Silvers take here. I like the 65 rule. If you want the accolades. Play the game during the regular season. We need more Jordan wanting to show emyo every game.

Load management uno reverse. “You’re not managing your non-load enough!”

This guy fucking sucks. He literally acts like a comic book villain. “So I was chatting with my dear friend Henry Kissinger” ass guy.

Garbage. Another facet is the pace . Which is too fast and has led to more injuries. In this and the NFL.

fuck off

After the all star break is when the tank season begins though.

So… we need more games then?

Haha. AI to see the research data. People have just become religious again I guess. 

Silver says players need to take more loads. Think they’ll go for it?

nfl —> cte vibes

I like the rule just should be games or a certain minute threshold.

WE KNOW ABOUT THE LOADS

I don’t mind the arbitration if a player barely missed the 65-game rule cutoff

The problem is, those players should never be able to be eligible for First team.

They should only be eligible for 2nd or 3rd Team.

[SHAMS]: Just in, Adam Silver has removed the all-star break as he believes rest causes injuries.

Adam Silver thinkin he Isaac Newton over here with his inertia agument

What a massively stupid take

If it’s true, it sounds like a great reason to get rid of that stupid All Star Game then.

Also, a great reason to get rid of that stupid Cup and that stupid break for Olympics.

 Taking injuries out (of the equation)

But, should they? 

So we should add 10 more games to the year? Appropriate load and more games to hit the minimum. Maybe I could be commish. 

And then he pushes ai at the end of the quote

Maybe that’s why Silver sucks, he’s never gotten appropriate loads on his days off 😔

nice Mott and Bailey, taking a day of here and there is not the same as an extended break, the latter can lead to injuries due to conditioning issues, the former leads to fewer injuries as it is short enough no meaningful amount of conditioning is lost but the body can recover more, so he justifying removing load management by pointing at the long break. not at all the same things.

Yall need to google IQVIA to see who’s really making these decisions. Don’t ask me how I know

The 65 game rule is good. No need to change.

But really Adam Silver? You couldn’t come up with a better reason?

Disingenuous lying snake

spoken like a true world class athlete

oh wait

Personally think 62 games is a better threshold than 65, but what do I know…

He’ll do anything for the sports betting companies

This is true. Players in the 80s and 90s got hurt significantly less and they were getting tackled on fouls. Their shoes were also worse. The game is more demanding now but that requires staying limber as much as possible, which means playing the game. Play fewer minutes, but play.

Of course he brings it back around to AI lol. The fuck is wrong with this league where it seems like at every turn the NBA front office has to find ways to deal with teams or players attempting to end around rules? Flopping, tanking, load management, cap circumvention, tampering/pre-free agency, and can probably go on endlessly.

What does Nosferatu know about this shit 

55 games should be better

Financially incentivize people to play hurt, says that if they rested too much they might actually get hurt more.

Fuck Adam Silver.

On one hand, I tend to believe the excessive babying of players has not helped either. But also, I would imagine if you took away the All-Star break that the players would full on riot.

Also what a weird pivot into talking about AI.

What about fragile players like Kawhi and Embiid that have an extension history of injuries? I would imagine that load management is more appropriate for them

Alien looking MFer is a tool. Guys making 20-30-40 million a year are only required to attend work if they feel like it 17 times a year, while they also get 3-4 months off every year. 🙄

Maybe the refs should call all these obvious contact fouls and protect the players more. The NBA finals has felt like a professional wrestling tournament so far. It should be obvious why players are getting injured.

anyone else getting tired of billionaires who haven’t worked a real job a day in their life, telling us that working more and harder is actually really great and a thing we should all do for no extra money.

It should be a minutes rule, not a 65 game rule.

“Rest is causing more injuries and we’re going to use AI to prove it” is, genuinely, fucking insane.