Or just that he’s healthier and doesn’t need the same injury management he needed last year coming off injury…

Nah.

The Knicks entire goal the last few regular seasons is standings didn’t matter, get to the playoffs healthy.

They weren’t taking any chances with Robinson as they needed him in May not November. And it worked, he has been healthy and played the entirety of the playoffs the last two years and that was the Knicks goal.

The Celtics have different goals in mind with Robinson so he will be deployed differently

Quite the opposite - the Knicks just wanted to keep Mitch in bubble wrap so he could be healthy for the postseason and Mitch complied because he wanted to win/get paid. Now that he’s gotten his bag he’s free to go out there and get hurt whenever he wants.

Or the training staff wouldn’t let him play?

I mean… Dude still can’t hit Free throws after how many seasons now? And after all that time off he could’ve been working on free throws but he’s probably just like every other player that relies on their athleticism. Can’t wait to get home and play video games.

That’s not what he’s saying at all. Why would he suggest that lol

lol I hope so

Only somewhat related but my middle school used wood flooring in the gym and it felt like a cheat code whenever we’d happen to have a game back there in men’s league, I remember feeling light, springy, and could definitely jump an inch or two higher and my joints always felt great

Whereas our highschool gym was this sort of composite rubber material that would just absolutely sap the life out of your legs no bounce at all and your knees would take a beating, same in college except instead of 1970s rubber it was this fancy new interwoven rope / smooth carpet looking (plastic?) that mostly felt like playing outside but diving for loose balls was much worse somehow

Idk if anyone else has had a similar experience at their gyms, there’s another one nearby that’s a different composite and it gets so slippery when dust gets on it that it’s completely unplayable…generally I prefer playing outside on the blacktop because of the traction it provides

I guess I never thought of it but I wonder what the regulations are on what each NBA team can use for their court, outside of the dimensions, lines etc. Probably not as drastic as what goes on in MLB but do players have courts they prefer to play on, unrelated to the fans, locker room, or general vibe of the city and more so the feel of the court itself?

Dead spots on the floor are easier on the joints.

That’s just called a cheeseburger sub here. Chopped cheese isn’t some unique thing, it’s literally a chopped up cheeseburger. I mean it hits, but it can’t hold a candle to a freshly sliced Italian.

Why isn’t chopped cheese talked about more as a top tier sandwich? I feel it’s on a similar level to the Philly cheese steak, but nobody outside NYC even seems to know what it is.

Not to be confused with Boston Pizza, a Canadian chain restaurant.

Here comes the pizzer.

It’s the water

His coach before that was Thibs and he still didn’t play back to backs because his body can’t handle it.

Unless Boston’s primary organizational goal is to overperform in the regular season and lose in the first round every year they should probably continue managing his workload in the regular season.

Last year he didn’t actually have any long spells out so i’m just being nice

Knicks medical was rated the best in the league in 2024-2025, and they decided the best course of action was to limit his minutes and not have him play back to backs.

Mitch is someone you pick up for the playoffs. Celtics center rotation held up for regular season but was exposed in the playoffs.

Washed? He went to the tanking Thunder to take it easy and rehab for a year, you got the fresh version.

Didn’t OKC shelve Horford because he was playing too well and ruining their tanking strategy at the time?

I think this is a different story. It’s performance vs availability.

Mitch just has a bunch of injuries and is best deployed for 15-20 minutes for 60ish games.

That’s because he wasn’t playing most back to backs

Largely because they rested him all the time

OKC had to bench Al because he was playing too good lol

Definitely my concern as well. Knicks fan saw him evolve from a funny second round project making YouTube videos for a losing team to a legit contributor on a champion squad, despite his limitations and availability issues. Boston fans may just see him as a $15M injury prone big who can’t play late in close games because he still can’t hit free throws.

Not to be overly dramatic, but Mitch’s social media posting doesn’t strike me as a guy who might handle that much criticism well.

He’s good on the glass because he can’t do anything else well. I work at a restaurant and we have this girl who is horrible at most things so she’s constantly wiping down the tables in order to look busy. Same idea.

your shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by your shirt

You should need permission to spread hate online.

What are you smoking because I want to make sure I avoid it at all costs.

Terrible comp

And that’s why they are both currently the longest tenured Celtics and they were both major contributors for the 2023 finals win, right?

Or did one get traded for Jeue Holiday and the other not really play at all for the majority of the contract. Been a few years, hard to keep up.

The irony is Rob Williams is currently in the best shape of his career on another team, but has to be load managed excessively due to what happened during his Celtics tenure.

Wouldn’t this be advice for the Celtics coaches? Lol

Okay I’ll post a poll in our subreddit to decide when he plays and when he sits

The Celtics famously don’t play their injury prone Centers in backs to backs. Rob Williams and KP for sure, but even old Al was getting load managed and he was never injured.

I get that Robinson is all excited here, but he’ll definitely be sitting most back to backs and everyone will be better for it in the end

They just went out and spent a bunch of money on him and want to use him… I get it. But youre right. The Knicks figured out the formula last year. Anybody who doesn’t follow it is a fool. Mitch should be thanking the Knicks for it too for helping him get his bag.

So there really is not evidence that sitting him for back to back accomplishes much. Yes if you play him less he has less of a chance to get hurt. But like say every game there is 1% getting hurt, it pretty much just stays the same. Most likely the reason he stayed healthy last year had nothing to do with being conservative and is just luck.

They were just fine last year with Queta and Garza. I don’t know why you think those 2 will be so inadequate this year that it will require them to desperately lean on Robinson.

Issa joke clearly, you don’t have to protect your boyfriend like that

ankles…feet…hands

he is a disciplined professional baller

If you ignore the whole “broke his pinky punching a wall right before the finals” thing

Thats nuts. Why would any team draw plays for Mitch?

“For some reason”, the reason being he may be the single least skilled offensive player in the entire NBA. Has no touch around the basket, can barely run a dribble handoff, can’t shoot outside of 3 feet, and his hands and footwork are getting worse. I think if he had more skills, Mike Brown would’ve given him the opportunity to show it.

What he is is an above average defender, elite post defender, all-time great rebounder, good lob threat, and good screener. That’s it.

No Knicks HC thought that was a good idea bc he has the coordination and bodily movements of a 2-hour old baby giraffe and the shooting motion of a corpse with rigor mortis. He was great when he did the things he was great at. Hope that helps.

Who knows, would love to see it but his impact on defense is so exciting.

I’m waiting for Mitch to say he’s exclusively launching 3s this year on MySpace and Celtics fans freaking out not realizing he’s just a troll.

His role on the team is a bit of a question mark, because Queta is most likely going to start and it’ll probably be a platoon situation. Plus Luka Garza will play some minutes situationally and as a backup. Then we’ll most likely have a small ball lineup to close out a lot of games. So while he might be able to play back-to-backs, his minutes probably won’t be consistent from game to game.

Yeah and I don’t like him. I’m happy I don’t have to root for him anymore. Doesn’t have anything to do with whether he was useful for us