Seeing it this year with my Patriots. Went from the healthiest team last season to the most injured with over 20 players on IR and it’s only week 7 💀

exactly! JJJ is out for months and Ja is probably not far off unfortunately

OKC is the 3rd youngest team in the NBA is riddled with injuries.

While true, the team we blew up wasn’t exactly old.

Our most injured seasons had the payroll tied up in injury prone 23, 24, and 25 year olds.

OKC is the 3 youngest team bro

it has never helped us before 😭

Look it’s not that I disagree about the overall point, necessarily. But it’s gonna be a hard sell complaining about the number of games and back-to-backs when… it’s October. We’re 1.5 weeks in lol

I don’t think a brutal schedule was the primary cause of injury for these particular 73 guys. And “inconsistent” reffing? We’re throwing that into the same injury-cause bucket? I mean yeah reffing has issues but I’m just very skeptical that we could reduce injuries by changing anything with refs, even using 100% consistent refbots isn’t going to make any difference. Humans still have knees and ankles and shit and they’re flying around, come on

Dude, the year literally just started. This has nothing to do with back to backs or playing too much lmao

That’s been a constant conversation for years, I genuinely have no idea how you could possibly have missed it. Neither the players nor owners want to give up money by shortening the season. They’ve already started the season 2 weeks earlier to reduce back to backs, and not a single game goes by without conversations about inconsistent officiating. There’s no reason to think any of these things relate to any of the injuries so far this year.

Number of games but we’re at this point four games in 💀

Bro we are 3-4 games in. What are you on? If anything it suggests that there needs to be more preseason games to get players back into shape.

Basketball in general is a rough sport compared to most other for injuries. Growing up playing hockey and then as an adult playing beer league in nearly every sport (hockey, softball, indoor soccer, flag football, and basketball).

The most major injuries I’ve seen have been from basketball. Saw multiple teammates tear their Achilles, a broken leg similar to J-Dub’s, and a broken arm. This was all in about 3 and a half 8 game + playoff seasons.

Slow pitch softball was surprising the next with a broken leg from our 3rd baseman running into the fence trying to catch a ball, two older players (40+) getting knee injuries, and a pitcher (me) taking a line drive off the head and ending up knocked out and in ICU with a small brain bleed. The last one as preventable though if I was wearing the helmets most pitchers will wear now. These injuries were over the course of about 5 years with 3 to 4 8 game plus playoff a year.

Hockey is probably next with a broken leg, broken arm, and several people taking a stick or puck to the face with the worst one being a ref that took a deflected shot from a former ECHL player to the face. This was mostly playing the highest level of beer league my area offered on and off for 15 years. The sticks and pucks to the face of players were also preventable if people got over their ego and put on full cages instead of visors or going no visor. There may be more than that in beer league hockey, but those are the ones I remember.

Indoor soccer and flag football didn’t really see any major injuries, but was also playing really low level and only for a couple of seasons.

The amount of movement, quick change of direction, and jumping required with basketball is always going to be rough on the body especially compared to sports where it’s easier to take breaks and not move as much when you’re in the game.

With youth sports included and full body contact allowed with tackle football and hockey bothtechnically see more injuries than basketball, but I’d suspect if looking at flag and non-contact hockey, basketball would be much higher than both.

We’re probably ~4 years away from ⁴⁰⁄₃₆ minute games in the NBA

I mean, it makes perfect sense when you think about the physicality of the NBA, how fast they’re playing, and how the body doesn’t “scale up” in resiliency and durability as you get bigger. These guys are pushing the limits of what the human body is capable of.

Sure, but the players in the WNBA can’t jump 4+ feet off the ground running full speed and have other players undercut them or meet them 10+ feet in the air at the ball for a contested shot.

Yeah, I follow both leagues and it’s really that damn ACL that sucks, but other than that players play, but to be fair, sometimes there is like 4-5 days without a team playing, and I guess athleticism plays a role too

this is why they need to cut down the regular season. But that means less money for the league so that unfortunately won’t happen. These players shouldn’t be playing back to back with the pace of the game today.

Yeah, sadly while it’s very entertaining to see people jump out of the gym every possession in the NBA, it leads to a lot of injuries.

It’s 100% they play way less games

They play half the amount of games

It was so meaningless too, just a tough fall late in a game that was won in the regular season. One of those awful freak injuries.

Me too. His trajectory was special. Hopefully he can bounce back:/

Some players just got that dog in them.

He carried an injury riddled team to the #1 seed in each of the past two seasons so people have become numb to it.

Last season they were third in man games lost in the entire league.

The season before they only ever had one big man in the lineup at any given time as Chet, IHart and JWill all missed significant time.

Now they have even less depth than either of those teams, and more key injuries and people are like “yeah they’ll probably still be the #2 seed.”

Didn’t we release Oweh? He shouldn’t count.

But ya we are wrecked with injuries

Being out two games in a row isn’t really “put random games” seems like it really is to try and let the tendonitis heal.

Patellar tendinitis is kind of a serious. With the amount of pressure on the front of the knee that comes with basketball, the swelling caused micro tears and if not healed could rupture which would likely end his career.

He was still listed as out in yesterday’s injury report. If he had a chance of playing, he would have been listed as questionable like Ajay Mitchell. Won’t be surprised if he doesn’t feature at all in this upcoming away trip.

Yeah I wouldn’t put that in the same category as the serious injuries like Jalen Williams (or the Warriors guys).

It is absolutely disingenuous when the salary cap is a number not a single team is ever at lol. It’s better to use the luxury tax line

Adding the tax would be an even weirder way to calculate these numbers.

51% doesn’t get quite the headlines they wanted

Flaps arms

^ this guy flocks

use it or lose it (salary amount hold within the cap)

GSW’s long term plan was always to use the KP contract to make a trade and maintain the cap hold spot in the roster

i don’t think they deliberately built an old team so much as the only good players they could afford were old. a player of butler’s or horford’s or zingis’ skill level who is 28 and fully healthy would have never been available to the warriors with their lack of assets and cap space.

OKC does have some very injury prone players tbf

Ive said this every year. My franchise is cursed and that’s okay. Life bigger than ball fr.

Monday night we got to see the lethal combo of an IHart-Dix two-man game

Not to mention Micah peavy who couldn’t make a shot through a hula hoop

Mavs about to get a Dixing.

Yeah I guess we’ll have to see. Definitely could be underestimating how fucked their team is.

boy’s like all tendon