60 what tho

The lower back to back

I think home back to backs is reasonable or even back to backs in same city (LA and NY) but road b2bs should be banned

NBA champs and runner up would have less than 2 months off. I don’t think players would agree to that.

The players will never agree to it

Contenders need to play at a slower pace and play more of their bench.

I think this cuts into int’l tournaments

Or coaches could do more than 3 players deep on their bench.

Players will still get injured

Single game playoff elimination let’s do it

I’m not sure if the players/NBPA will be happy with their offseason being shorter though

The players don’t want that. For all the ones with kids, they want the off-season to line up with schools’ summer break as much as possible. And the ones without kids would rather have the time off as well.

And make the sport which already has the longest season calendar days wise, even longer ? NBA already has a ridicolously long playoffs that stretches from April to June, so for a team that goes the full distance, their offseason is barely over 2 months, before they have to ramp up for preseason in late Sept.

Contrast to baseball, World Series nearly always ends in late Oct and spring training begins in mid Feb, for a offseason that at its worse is 4+ months.

We won’t even talk about the NFL, which literally has almost the entire summer off ; )

Everyone needs surgery during the summer or even in the middle of the season, how are they going to recover?

Dirk, tim then Yao lmao

In modern times that only happened in the two lockout seasons. It wasn’t normal since like the 70s.

They need to get rid of back to backs it’s too much

It’s because of the cup games. In all my years watching, I never remember stretches like this. It is what it is at the end of the day but call me crazy in thinking forcing schedules like just to have nba cup and risking player health is not good for the league

I’m not convinced it wouldn’t be possible to just only have home b2bs

San Antonio - Memphis - Houston is bad but still not as asinine as Detroit - Atlanta - Milwaukee.

Basketball injuries are not because of contact for the most part.

Yes but the shifts are like 2 minutes. And btw hockey is facing the same problem, injuries due to high tempo.

Interesting to think about. Both sports do unnatural damage but the kinds of damage is different. Hockey is way way way worse when it comes to contact/impact injuries. Hockey injuries are “wounds”. These basketball injuries we are talking about are different.The average hockey player also only spends on average about 15 to 20 minutes on the ice per game.

Somebody always in the comments of every sport bringing up hockey.

Theres also no proven correlation between injuries and back to backs. Players just whined about it as they do number of games in general as want to work less on same pay, and all these ass kissers ran with it. Theyre allergic to facts and just adopt any trending opinion.

The back to back he’s talking about is today and tomorrow in Atlanta. It’s their 3rd back to back of the season already

But they have a game in Atlanta tomorrow

That just means both hockey and nba scheduling is stupid bro

Very, very, very rarely does hockey do away b2b’s compared to the nba. I’m with you on the general sentiment, but they try and avoid away b2b’s as much as possible

It’s really not. Basketball is way more physically demanding because of the the sprinting, starting and stopping, and jumping/landing impact. In hockey you can coast on the ice and there’s significantly less impact skating than there is running. There’s hitting, sure. But basketball is a physical sport as well, especially at the nba level

Really not significantly more physically demanding

How is skating more tired than running and jumping all game? Make it make sense

This is the front end of an away back to back. They play tomorrow vs the hawks

What do you think he’s talking about?

You do know that Wemby had an away B2B himself just yesterday?

It’s an away back to back this is 100% one of the games he should sit after last year

Between choosing individual awards and long playoffs run I think it’s an easy choice. Though I understand you were specifically replying to the MVP point.

it’s related, playing games you don’t need to also gives you a greater chance of getting injured and also playing worse in the later stretches of the season even if you don’t get injured

He’s only missed the 65 games once

He’s already played both halves of one of their b2bs this season, it’s just that this one comes at the end of a period where the Lakers have played 9 games in 14 days. As much as people have downplayed the strength of the Lakers’ opponents—and rightfully so—their schedule congestion has been brutal so far.

Yeah it essentially means he can’t have any small tweaks that take him out for even just a week if he wants to make it to 65.

That is true as well, it might take a delicate balance depending on how healthy he truly is. I get that it’s a very big if but if he manages to keep his current numbers throughout the season and the Lakers don’t fall down on seeding too much I could see him taking the MVP playing just a few of those 15, maybe he gets some blowouts where he can can play little time as well instead of just straight up missing games, idk

Hey Silver get rid of back to backs they are terrible

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Bronny is in Coachella.

Lmao, he is not a circus animal, let the man have some rest.

That’s on the people who decide the damn schedule. Him getting injured will result in less people getting to see him play. You see it all over the league, The players are run into the damn ground and having their careers fucked up due to the absurd load that’s put on them. That’s what disrespectful to the players and the fans.

shit I hope so

100%

softest strategy in the nba, but Brunson is the only one who has actually perfected it. Ausar is too good of a defender to get baited by mediocre players like reeves.

There were three major shifts that happened on the Internet during my time on it

2008- smartphone era started and completely changed how people interacted with the Internet, and who accessed it

2012- Facebook introduced the “like” button after doing a shit ton of social psychology research into how to get people addicted to their product because they thought people would enjoy it

2016- Trump won the election partly because his campaign did a much better job targeting people over the Internet, not just to get more Trump votes but also to discourage Hillary voters in swing states

2008 was when the Internet became cool. 2012 was when it became more intentionally addictive. 2016 was when politicians realized how powerful it was (due to what happened in 2008 and 2012)

I don’t miss EVERYTHING about the early 2000s Internet (was often not a fun place for women or minorities) but I sure do miss having a common space that wasn’t specifically designed to crush the souls of those using it

It’s quite unfortunate that Draymond is still in the 10th grade and never graduated to the 11th grade.

This is the future calling. They didn’t.

Idk if you know this but Portland is a good defensive team, particularly on the wings with Jrue Holiday and Toumani Camara.

Of course resting him in the cup game at home wasn’t going to happen. people are talking about choosing to be out today vs out tomorrow playing at the Hawks.

He also had 2 30 pt games vs okc

We saw the playoffs and in the blazers game AR was choking the lead

Pretty good it turns out

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Hopefully with Ausar in foul trouble

Can’t tell the future of what’s going to happen with injuries. You can load manage and still get a season ending injury. Winning the MVP seems important to him. And that’s okay.

That’s a terrible reason. Their next few games are Hawks-Bucks-Suns-Hornets-Jazz-Kings-Jazz.

This is the best team they play for a while and should use it to gage where they are. This upcoming run has way more room to rest.

Update

He averages 35 in matchups against him…

Austin Reaves dropped 43 on Detroit tonight yet somehow the narrative is that Luka is dodging them ? Lol.

Ball knower

Hahaha

Exactly. Doesn’t want the stats messed up!

I’ve been told that’s not true by multiple Lakers fans.

Agreed. Kinda sucks.

Lol I think the same gatekeepy type shit and I feel kinda bad but it gets to a point. You open the comments and it reads like actual kids are in here

Yeah you’re completely right. Every post is full of jokes and memes, hardly any meaningful discourse

I mean what do you expect? The NBA has purposely made their product more reality show for soft ass tall people being divas than actual on court products. The refs don’t even know what traveling is anymore. It’s like when F1 got Drive To Survive fans.

I’m not very active here man so Idk. I’ll take your word for it