Yeah and to be fair, they said reevaluated in two weeks. People assume that means cleared to play. Reevaluated means “don’t expect any news for two weeks.”

They didn’t grow up destroying their bodies playing 100+ basketball games a year with AAU.

Watch how little movement there is on defense back then. A lot of light jogging when your man doesn’t have the ball

just remember these stats when people compare modern era to old heads.

Yes the current players are more efficient and generally the league skill level is higher. But they really have a much easier job in terms of load management, rest, recovery, etc than the legends of the past. These guys used to play TRIPLEheaders ffs

Seriously, people said this all last year. There are always tons of deserving players who actually play full seasons.

Long season left, but as of right now we’re staring at a potential realistic 1st Team of Luka, Wemby, SGA, Tatum, and Jokic. Like, that’s basically chalk. 1-2 will likely get hurt and oh no, two of Giannis, Cade, Brunson, Flagg, or Maxey might fill in.

Yeah people say this so often but it always ends up just fine. Turns out the best players tended to play a lot and put up high numbers. Shocking stuff!

People will adapt their mindset to justify any arbitrary rule. It’s fascinating.

Jokic and Wemby almost missed out on eligibility and Luka and Cade got exceptions. Ant missed out by a couple of games and had a great season.

They should literally be superhuman and not capable of getting injured in a super physically intensive sport. SMH. So undeserving.

65 games is just a random ass number that has no objective measure for a player’s value for all NBA

If we truly want to judge value throughout the season why not 70 games or 75 games

has the last place team ever gotten a player on an all nba team?

I’ll give him a vote

Unless I’m mistaken, I think Duncan was the last time a rookie made it to an All-NBA team.

Yes they did lol, Duren is a terrible example. they had all the leverage in the world and still have him a 200M contract which is barely below his max. And all the drama only happened because he squeezed into all NBA 3rd team solely because of the eligibility requirements. If he hadn’t made it, he would’ve probably got like ¹⁶⁰⁄₅

Players move SO much more nowadays in the 3 point era. There are so much more injuries today than at any point in history.

It is harder than ever to play 65 games, so citing historic records do not make sense.

But then it sounds like a problem that didn’t need solving in the first place.

Wemby actually played 64

They should still change the rule imo. Kinda ridiculous it would have taken both those guys missing out for them to change it.

Brandon Ingram

Jalen Duren just this year

I think games played is important, but it shouldn’t be a hard limit.

Not saying that he was undeserving, but Jalen Johnson got allnba 3rd team honors while Ant was ineligible for awards, despite (in my opinion) Ant having a far greater impact

Anthony Edwards definitely had a case for All NBA last season over whoever you consider to be the worst of the 15.

historically, around 6% of All NBA selection played less than 65 games. around 4% of All NBA selection played less than 60 games. We are talking about 3-4 extra players (out of 150 slots) being eligible and selected for All NBA every decade, by lowering from 65 to 60. is 3-4% “very few”? I honestly dont know…

Probably the compromise will be 1st team rather than all nba altogother

ehhhh. was it intentional by sengun after curry initiated contact? yes. was it a good show of sportsmanship? no but it’s basketball. was it wat caused the curry injury? also no he was alr hurt

If you were aiming for 1st team, sure. If its 2nd or 3rd team for a 1st team like player, it’s doable, and its what historical they’d get missing that many games anyway.

Tho i thought you had to play 15mins minimum and you only got 2 of those

But if anyone could it’s curry

Defending dirty players must suck

Sengun grabbed his arm, twisted it awkwardlyand rotated Curry around the whole thing which is what tweaked his abs. It was a dirty move and it looked intentional af.

which is what 5 minutes a quarter is…

I think I agree with doc rivers last week we should do more “home and home” b2bs maybe that would help a little. These teams play a lot of games

Yeah and i don’t get how any player playing 68 games is automatically having a better season than any player playing 62 games. But when it’s someone playing 82 games vs someone playing 76 games, now it’s comparable.

Stop pretending the 65-game rule is about determining who had the best season. It’s about forcing superstars to play more games.