SeismicRipFart | Trail Blazers

2533 | a day ago

Getting to sleep every night at 9pm as an nba player is not even remotely possible

purplenyellowrose909 | Timberwolves

893 | 21 hours ago

Most players have sleep schedules would seem total nonsense to us 9-5’ers. They’re like half nocturnal, are doing workouts at 4am, and take naps midday

Someguynamedjacob | East

574 | 20 hours ago

Pretty much every NBA player I’ve heard say that in season it is late nights, shitty sleep on planes, but lots of post shoot around pre-game naps that actually seem to be up to 2 full sleep cycles.

MotoMkali | Warriors

250 | 20 hours ago

Which is more natural for humans anyway.

DerrickWhiteMVP | Spurs

255 | 19 hours ago

I used to work a 4am-1pm shift. I had two sleep cycles. 2pm-6pm and then around 11pm-3am. I kind of felt great.

purplenyellowrose909 | Timberwolves

176 | 19 hours ago

2x4hrs is lowkey kinda peak if you can pull it off

DuaneDibbley

48 | 16 hours ago

And right after and right before work sounds so cool too. I’m always tired between work and bed, I can get stuff done or go out but never enthusiastically. Would love to be fresh during my time off on work nights

boringexplanation | Kings

14 | 16 hours ago

If you’re young. I did it for all of my 20s and some of my 30s until my body gave oht

wuhter

1 | 3 hours ago

I’ve been doing that lately and I work a regular day job. I like it

5-9pm and like 2-6am

MotoMkali | Warriors

45 | 19 hours ago

Yeah for most of human history we had to take turns watching. Stoke the fire in the middle of the night, refuel it. It’s only until roughly the last 15k years that has changed. And even then you have guards and soldiers where it was beneficial, hunters etc.

camfa | SAS

78 | 19 hours ago

It’s even more recent: just up until the industrial revolution there used to be a thing called second sleep, which is widely referenced in medieval literature but almost never explained, because it was so common. It has more to do with the invention of artificial lightning.

shadycalvin

25 | 18 hours ago

Second sleep?? Is that before or after second breakfast?

Zaltarical | Celtics

19 | 16 hours ago

LOTR reference spotted

But actually it was right before. Humans would sleep right after the sun goes down and wake up around halfway through the night. They’d tell stories and eat what you could call first breakfast. Then they’d fall back asleep, wake up to the sunrise, and have second breakfast

Loves_His_Bong | Timberwolves

34 | 13 hours ago

Most of human history we didn’t wash our hands or ass. All our closest primate relatives also exhibit monophasic sleep cycles. Just because a polyphasic sleep cycle might have been used out of necessity, does not mean it was evolutionarily optimal or “natural.” Theres not a single piece of scientific evidence supporting biphasic or polyphasic sleep as an optimal sleep schedule.

champion_dave | Raptors

26 | 11 hours ago

I don’t know what any of that means but you sound confident so I’m now changing my entire opinion of sleep cycles back to what it was before I started reading this comment thread. What a ride

Loves_His_Bong | Timberwolves

9 | 8 hours ago

Yeah sorry I got a little mad and broke out my thesaurus. I’m an evolutionary geneticist, so I get unreasonably worked up about these topics when people try to sneak in these soft anthropology and evolution assumptions.

In short, you should get sleep in the way that is suited to your lifestyle. The unfortunate reality of shift work though is that it shortens your life span demonstrably, and biphasic sleep (sleeping twice per day) is more associated with those professions.

Substantive420 | Supersonics

3 | 9 hours ago

He broke out the “mono-“ and “poly-“ followed by a sciencey word so you know it’s real.

SSBBardock | Cavaliers

7 | 17 hours ago

Honestly what I try to do often, but not 4 hour periods. Usually get up like 7ish for work, take like 2-3 hour nap when home and fall asleep again around 1-2 am. If I sleep for the entire 7-8 hours straight I feel lethargic as hell and just overall like shit the next day

K3TtLek0Rn | Celtics

45 | 17 hours ago

This gets thrown around on Reddit a lot but is unproven

yugoslav_posting

21 | 16 hours ago

Yeah how is it natural? My natural sleep is 9 hours straight once a day at around the same time. I would love to veer from that and live a more interesting life but usually end up paying for it if I start veering from a sleep schedule.

Loves_His_Bong | Timberwolves

20 | 13 hours ago

It’s like paleo diet mentality for people with poor sleep hygiene.

“Our ancestors had to wake up to do watch at night, so sleeping through the night is unnatural.” Ok why can’t you see a fucking thing at night like most animals that actually have polyphasic sleep cycles?

We should all have fucking cool ass cat eyes if evolution worked the way these people think it does.

teamorange3 | Knicks

34 | 18 hours ago

Doesn’t mean it’s better. Monophasic sleep is better for most people than polyphasic.

dgvhjiiuyttrrffcvbjj

14 | 14 hours ago

That’s not true, one single uninterrupted sleep cycle is best. People can make 2 sleeps work, but that doesn’t mean it’s “natural”.

Neinhaltt

1 | 5 hours ago

In the future teleportation services would be a boon to sports teams who can afford them.

SeismicRipFart | Trail Blazers

103 | 20 hours ago

If the nba was built to allow for players to all get an uninterrupted 8-10 hours of sleep at least 5 days a week, I guarantee we’d see a drastic reduction in injuries. Also I am not a doctor at all, I just believe in that.

Lane-Kiffin | San Francisco Warriors

7 | 15 hours ago

MLB is the same way. The earliest a game could ever be is 1 pm, and on weekdays it’s almost always 6 pm or later. David Samson did a break down one time of the usual post-game schedule. These people are generally nocturnal by necessity during the season.

Vegetable-Tooth8463 | Hornets

-11 | 19 hours ago

Only Kobe did the 4 AM workouts

dbzmah | Mavericks

130 | 20 hours ago

He went to sleep at 9 in all but one finals game, so it checks out.

Averylarrychristmas | Celtics

12 | 20 hours ago

🧑‍🍳

SeismicRipFart | Trail Blazers

3 | 20 hours ago

That’s a bar🫵🔥

DyingSunSeverian

11 | 21 hours ago

https://youtu.be/6f1W3MnHe_o

SeismicRipFart | Trail Blazers

3 | 21 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/E2WysWNyQXk?si=ZXn0oy9-qavZnCnY

DyingSunSeverian

2 | 21 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/guJMo3YHARY

FyouinyourA | Bulls

5 | 20 hours ago

Yeah but monks are built different bro

yellowishbluish

2 | 7 hours ago

Exactly everything about this guy is performative. He probably tells people he goes to bed at 9, because wow, hes not like other boys, and then plays on his phone til 1130.

Electronic_Pea_4845 | Lakers

-2 | 16 hours ago

Kittens get sleepy when they smacked by KAT

OldTie3335

1800 | a day ago

This year on new years eve hes gonna try to make it to midnight for the very first time

repo_sado | Knicks

230 | 20 hours ago

Good luck. One year I got to seven

Floyd-money | Cavaliers

38 | 15 hours ago

As I get older this is too real, like hey babe gimme a kiss for midnight you want to get some sleep?

fartymctoots | Bulls

7 | 12 hours ago

After being a parent, we hit the NYC ball drop and called it a wrap and it has been great

EdCP | Mavericks

1 | 10 hours ago

We were in bed before midnight the first year

Richard_Cromwell | Minneapolis Lakers

20 | 16 hours ago

He doesn’t need to see the ball drop in NY. He’s lived it…

hokie_u2 | Supersonics

13 | 17 hours ago

Maybe he can take a nappy so he’s not cranky

OldTie3335

2 | 16 hours ago

Thats cheating!

BeamTeam23 | Kings

5 | 16 hours ago

Midnight EST

jjjjjjjjjjjjjaaa

1 | 8 hours ago

Just set the clocks forward a bit and show him last years ball drop.

FreeBlanketSoap | San Francisco Warriors

515 | a day ago

man we bored as fuck now

girthytacos | Bulls

233 | 21 hours ago

We talking about a 22 year old’s bedtime 😂

CrimsonMoonRising | Spurs

19 | 14 hours ago

Tomorrow we’re gonna discuss his cereal eating habits.

IsTheNameArrenTaken | Kings

3 | 9 hours ago

Peak F5 season is here already

JaySayMayday | Spurs

-18 | 18 hours ago

There’s nothing to do now but hate on the Knicks.

bearsfan989 | OKC

503 | a day ago

Quick, one of you nerds need to run the data to see if his stats fall off when games start late.

whenishit-itsbigturd

112 | 21 hours ago

And one of you other nerds make a tiktok of Wemby being goofy with baby music box songs playing behind it

noobacuse | Rockets

78 | 20 hours ago

Where’s the guy who did the Harden strip club away game analysis when you need him

dbzmah | Mavericks

56 | 20 hours ago

Did you see the 4th quarter of every finals game?

Sure_Huckleberry_236

80 | 19 hours ago

The question is how does he perform in the 4th quarter of games with afternoon tipoffs?

trumpblewputin | Knicks

3 | 5 hours ago

Better than that lol

ABusinessScrub | CHA

16 | 17 hours ago

Not nerd stats but when spurs played a matinee in Charlotte this year this spurs fan said wemby is always sleepy for early games (and that’s been hater fuel since obvi) so idk bro sleepy for all of em

Plastic_Patience6214 | Celtics

481 | a day ago

He’s also rumored to get up around 2:15am to pee, he really needs to stop consuming liquids after 6pm

sleepyguy- | Thunder

106 | 21 hours ago

Why do we know this much about this kid?

crazy_akes

42 | 17 hours ago

The monks are avid tweeters, they pretty much livestreamed the whole retreat. One guy kept sticking his phone under the bathroom door like my cats paw, he was snapchatting video of the ceiling and you just see wembys neck and hear splashing sounds and he had the Snapchat time filter on that showed exactly 2:15am.

CrimsonMoonRising | Spurs

10 | 14 hours ago

Lmao at the “you just see Wemby’s neck” because of course you can

laque-

6 | 15 hours ago

Wait fr? This is so fucking creepy

sorendiz | HOU

41 | 15 hours ago

yeah it was pretty fucked up but the monks wouldnt stop farming engagement so what can you do

JohnnyDangerfield97

12 | 15 hours ago

Lol

DoritoDawg | Knicks

28 | 21 hours ago

Because people ask

OUEngineer17 | Nuggets

13 | 21 hours ago

Just like me then. Except I get up a couple of more times after that. I stay hydrated though.

nerdymen242424 | Lakers

4 | 16 hours ago

It’s been happening to me unironically a lot this past year and is annoying at times

Professional-Rub152

192 | a day ago

If he’s still got that 9pm bedtime, he’s gonna need to change it up. The Spurs are gonna live on national TV the rest of his career. He needs to get used to staying up til 11.

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

60 | a day ago

There’s really no reason for a professional athlete to be out of bed before like ten, is there?

bruhthisgottawork | Knicks

60 | 21 hours ago

The amount of training required to be a pro, id assume

Ok-Adeptness-5834

51 | 21 hours ago

Just shift your bed time? If you’re sleeping at 9 and waking up at 6, just go to bed at 11 and wake up at 8.

Redpin | Super 8

13 | 18 hours ago

For real, these dudes go to work at 7pm, they should wake up at noon.

Pndrizzy

11 | 17 hours ago

Yeah there’s no gym, film, practice, game planning, shoot around, media, or other things involved. They work 3 hours a day, a few days a week /s

Redpin | Super 8

9 | 17 hours ago

You can do that in the period before and after games, or on off days. It doesn’t have to be at 8am.

sevseg_decoder | MEM

42 | 21 hours ago

Literally not a factor. These dudes step into an air conditioned gym and can train as late into the night as they want in there.

Morning people love to act like the crack of dawn is the most important time of the day but that’s not even a tiny bit true for an NBA player. You can still do the Kobe thing of starting your day with hoops and having 4 full training sessions with space between to recover. Nothing changes. Except ability to perform on the west coast, for example.

googleduck

3 | 11 hours ago

Morning people love to act like the crack of dawn is the most important time of the day

Truest words of all time. People will legitimately look down on you for something that has been scientifically shown repeatedly as being just a biological disposition towards staying up late vs getting up early. And act like one of them is a moral failing lmao. Like yeah if you have an early morning job suck it up and set an alarm clock. Otherwise get up whenever works for your schedule.

DanQuaylePotatoe | Timberwolves

17 | 21 hours ago

So train during the late morning and afternoon?

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

2 | 21 hours ago

Setting aside otherworldly motivation and physical gifts that separates us from athletes, it’s their jobs to train. If I took the 9-10 hours of work out of my schedule, I’d at least have the time to train as much.

DeadStarMan

2 | 21 hours ago

Especially in the Texas heat if he wants to do outdoor workouts

GrimaceThundercock | Spurs

4 | 21 hours ago

Eating. Putting on muscle is a huge priority for someone like Wemby.

You can adjust your training schedule without losing efficiency, but if you’re really trying to maximize gains then every meal is on an inflexible schedule.

Electric_jungle | Washington Bullets

6 | 21 hours ago

10 was just a random number, but I’m not talking about sleeping longer than 8-9 hours, I’m talking about shifting the schedule.

All of this is a non issue, Wemby needs to improve conditioning, he didn’t lose because games were later than his bed time lol.

Ok-Adeptness-5834

4 | 21 hours ago

Meals are not inflexible schedules. You can eat whenever you want.

GrimaceThundercock | Spurs

-4 | 21 hours ago

Not if you’re trying to maximize gains.

Ok-Adeptness-5834

7 | 21 hours ago

How does that interfere with sleeping? Like if he slept at 11 instead of 9, how does that mess things up?

GrimaceThundercock | Spurs

2 | 21 hours ago

The bedtime isn’t the important thing, it’s what time he ate his last meal.

Typically people trying to maximize muscle gain try to eat at least every five hours so that their body is constantly absorbing.

The five hours can be extended while sleeping since metabolism slows, but you still don’t want to wait too long before refueling.

Guy I responded to asked for a reason an athlete would need to get out of bed early. To stay on their eating schedule would definitely be a reason.

toggl3d

1 | 17 hours ago

Wemby isn’t a professional body builder trying to scrape together another quarter pound of lean tissue.

GrimaceThundercock | Spurs

2 | 17 hours ago

He’s put on 25 pounds since joining the league. Obviously bulking up is a priority.

toggl3d

1 | 17 hours ago

Only to the degree that he needs to eat more generally. He does not need an eating schedule the he works his sleep schedule around, at all.

PointGodAsh | Timberwolves

5 | 21 hours ago

Gotta pee sometimes.

Main_Evening_9079 | Knicks

8 | 21 hours ago

I get so irrational at my own urethra when it’s time to pee at two in the morning… like “why would you betray me like this”

1234Health

1 | 21 hours ago

The first half of that sentence had me laughing, lol ^

Revivaled-Jam849

2 | 7 hours ago

Depends on when your sport is on.

NFL can start at 1pm, so definitely need to get up before 10. That’s probably the biggest hell as your game can be 1pm one week, prime time the next, and then some foreign game the week after.

Equidissection | Mavericks

1 | 20 hours ago

In terms of scheduling no, but I think some research supports earlier (like 10p vs 2a) bedtimes as better for health/recovery, even when you get the same amount of sleep.

Lane-Kiffin | San Francisco Warriors

1 | 15 hours ago

Football is the only exception. They like their early workouts.

aoifhasoifha | NYK

1 | 5 hours ago

Mainly sun, depending on where you live.

Skidda24 | Lakers

2 | 21 hours ago

A lot of players go to bed at 9ish and are fine. Most of the players will just nap if they need it before the game.

DistributionOk9687

1 | 21 hours ago

Probably. He’s too tired

Docile_Penguin33 | Raptors

82 | 20 hours ago

He starts to lie down at 9pm, but he’s so tall that it’s 11pm by the time his head hits the pillow.

likewoahitsaj | Bucks

82 | a day ago

Gonna be a LONG offseason

JaySayMayday | Spurs

-2 | 18 hours ago

Not until we get rumors of Chet getting his food birded

Zeeron1 | Thunder

55 | 21 hours ago

Why does he not simply eat smaller players that are sleeping and absorb the sleep restoration they had generated?

gerardguey | Bulls

16 | 20 hours ago

Kirbyama

CountJohn12 | Magic

7 | 15 hours ago

Shaq actually did this

Zeeron1 | Thunder

2 | 12 hours ago

He might still be doing it

sevenferalcats

2 | 20 hours ago

This is the only real answer to this question. This is peak performance.

SlumpDoc

30 | a day ago

He could quite possibly be taking a nap during the day

Professional-Rub152

13 | 21 hours ago

That’s not the point though. If hes still going to be at 9pm on off days, he’s not building game day routines.

KasElGatto

1 | 4 hours ago

He took a nap during 4 of the games.

Ok-Tree4365

20 | 21 hours ago

He (or someone on his team) thought it would be good PR to say he goes to bed at 9PM every night.

sun_not_cold | Lakers

16 | 19 hours ago

I thought it was “no blue screens after 9pm.” When did it become bedtime at 9?

Seijuroux

4 | 15 hours ago

i think cause people are also taking the interview where Fox pulled him away cause he said its time for him to go to bed or whatever lol

whenishit-itsbigturd

8 | 21 hours ago

Groggy because it’s past bedtime Wemby is hilarious. Imagine him standing there swaying like an NPC, waiting for play to start lmao

Might also explain why he’s so grumpy in the playoffs

Beetle919 | Hornets

7 | a day ago

Sleepy Wemby.

gjaxx

6 | a day ago

Man these posts get more and more stupid

KasElGatto

1 | 4 hours ago

First time here during off-season? It gets worse.

Typical-Radish4317 | Supersonics

6 | a day ago

Lot of players will wake up exercise and nap before the game.

Jec1027 | Warriors

4 | a day ago

I mean yes honestly

cocoacowstout | Warriors

5 | 21 hours ago

Hey, take it easy, he’s on French time

Crafty-Consequence87

3 | 19 hours ago

He averaged 29 minutes a game in the regular season. Ramping the minutes and the intensity up under the spotlight of the playoffs was a big part of it.

RadDood84

2 | 16 hours ago

My personal favs with different genres

Indie/Alt - Ok Computer by Radiohead
Hardcore/Metal - Colors by Between the Buried and me
Punk - Full Circle by Pennywise
Folky - the first two albums by Blind Pilot

BenBRob5

3 | a day ago

No, it just means he doesn’t go to bed every night around 9pm

larmenius15

3 | 21 hours ago

It depends on how he is laying down. Sometimes his head is in a different time zone to his feet.

Bournerounderz | Spurs

3 | 21 hours ago

Wemby should embrace the James Harden lifestyle. The strip clubs in San Antonio are about to make bank.

chobbskabobs | Knicks

3 | 20 hours ago

But Mamdani repealed bedtime

Beautiful_Ninja | Nets

4 | 19 hours ago

Look, as much as we want it to be, Mamdani isn’t Mayor of Earth.

…yet.

Killerseed | Bulls

3 | 20 hours ago

alright post season threads are coming in, see ya’ll next season!

Gfunkual

3 | 18 hours ago

If he went to bed at 9p every night, he’d probably miss some games.

Skankcunt420 | Knicks

3 | 10 hours ago

that’s why the knicks were able to tuck him in within 5 games

yellowishbluish

3 | 7 hours ago

Top tier analysis

Mr_E_Nigma_Solver | Tampa Bay Raptors

2 | 21 hours ago

He needs to do something to improve his stamina. I understand there’s a hard cap which limits his options but if he wants to win a chip as a 1A he’s gotta be able to close out finals games.

BigfootaintnotReal

2 | 21 hours ago

Good fkn point

scragglerock | Lakers

2 | 21 hours ago

Back in the 60’s they invented these things called naps. Can be a real game changer.

theyoloGod | Tampa Bay Raptors

2 | 21 hours ago

Plenty of professional athletes routinely afternoon nap

WeaponX33

2 | 19 hours ago

Most home Spurs games start at 7:30. He’s not going to sleep at 9pm.

KelelWare4MVP

2 | 19 hours ago

Offseason started early 🍿

Turtle_with_a_sword | Heat

2 | 18 hours ago

Maybe he gets fatigued because he is literally a giant and it takes a lot more energy to move his long ass body around the court?

The modern game requires a lot more movement out of big men.

NotReallyJustin

2 | 18 hours ago

Have you ever heard of naps guy?

Such-Egg-7584

2 | 17 hours ago

You know, I’m starting to think this Wemby guy might be full of shit

greatwall23

2 | 16 hours ago

It’s more likely that this is the longest season he has ever played

saplinglearningsucks

2 | 15 hours ago

These algebra problems are getting very specific

Turbulent_Shower_147

2 | 12 hours ago

That’s actually not the worst point. Probably should back that up an hour or two.

Nupe_1974

1 | a day ago

You serious? He has stamina issues because he’s 7’5… Not because he goes to bed at 9pm… I gotta fix my algorithms so I don’t see dumb shit like this anymore

Rare-Classroom-5065 | Hawks

8 | 21 hours ago

Or you could just lighten up as a person, that would make things a lot easier as well

KennyKettermen | Timberwolves

1 | 21 hours ago

He’s also 22.

I’m 29 and I go to bed at 9pm every day. Wake up at 3:30, work construction all day and then still have energy to rock climb, run, go to concerts, whatever. When Friday hits I’ll stay out all night. No naps

All that to say as long as he’s getting good sleep he’s young enough the energy shouldn’t be a factor

theeama

-1 | 20 hours ago

You’re not 7’5. Its because he’s 7’5 why its an issue. The body has to circulate basically alot more to keep him going and such he burns alot more.

Sharkwatcher314

1 | 21 hours ago

Probably not hard for a program to run the numbers on games that run late and his performance in them compared to games ending early

quiksilva86

1 | 21 hours ago

Just saw a post with a former pro talking about the importance of high intensity training from 7-9pm so your body is prepared. Makes sense

AccomplishedBake8351

1 | 20 hours ago

I think he just doesn’t party

ilikeCRUNCHYturtles | Lakers

1 | 19 hours ago

Open the schools

Char10 | Cavaliers

1 | 19 hours ago

Adrenaline is a helluva drug

bestrammusok

1 | 19 hours ago

thought he just doesn’t use his phone past 9pm to fall sleep better,not that he sleeps at that time

remotecontroldr

1 | 18 hours ago

He probably takes naps, a lot of these guys do.

No_Force_1371 | Grizzlies

1 | 18 hours ago

This mane here never took a nap or heard of the concept. I guess you only sleep once per day. Just up for 16-18 hrs per day huh.

VanGrants | Knicks

1 | 15 hours ago

wow good question

rgijgnqiw | Knicks

1 | 10 hours ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 too much internet for the day

SebastianC1

1 | 8 hours ago

All time post

GoldBlueberryy

1 | 7 hours ago

I can tell y’all never played organized sports in your lives.

TXtogo | Spurs

1 | 6 hours ago

Maybe he’s just a choke.

WalrusLift | Nuggets

1 | 4 hours ago

Floyd Mayweather uses an unconventional sleep schedule. He sleeps from roughly 6:00 AM to 2:30 PM, getting about 9 to 10 hours of rest. He developed this “night owl” routine to sync his training and mental sharpness with the midnight timing of his major pay-per-view fights.

laz10 | DEN

0 | 11 hours ago

Wemby is just performative, I’m not buying it anymore

israelipm | MIA

0 | 10 hours ago

Wemby is an aura farmer and highly PR trained. All of this blue light nonesense reeks. It’s better to ignore all of these “stories” and quirks because they have nothing to do with basketball.

piesis9

-2 | 14 hours ago

9pm? What grown man goes to bed at 9pm

If Wembanyama goes to sleep every night at around 9 PM, doesn’t that mean he’s sleepy in late games