The NBA Still Has a MAJOR Problem
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- čas přidán 25. 10. 2023
- The NBA player rest and participation policy is already on full display just 3 days into the season with both Devin Booker and Bradley Beal out of the Laker's home opener against phoenix.
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There’s also the liability issue - the NBA can’t tell a player he has to play through soreness, because if the player subsequently gets hurt the league is on the hook for damages. It’s the opposite of the NFL’s concussion policy, where the league is SUPPOSED to step in a keep the player FROM playing. Here they’re going to force a guy to play? No chance. Zero.
Every player plays through soreness. That's what professional sports is. If no one played through soreness there'd be no games past the first month in any sport
Their job is to be out there and preform. This is professional sports, this is what comes with it.
That's what the NBA thinks, but to the players, thier job is to win championships. For teams like the Suns that know they will be in the playoffs at the end of the year, being healthy by that time is much more important than entertaining fans.
Drastic measures from a dying league
This is why the NFL fights guaranteed contracts. They know people would get the money and not play.
Weird that they will make exceptions for age but not injury history. If a player like Zion or either of the Ball brothers needed to rest to prevent injuries when it is known they have a robust history of injury, why is that not an exception? They didn’t think enough about this policy before implementing it
This policy is crazy as someone who grew up watching football/soccer. It's completely normal for coaches to use load management and guess what? There's no restriction because the leagues won't care if the stars rest, teams are free to reach their main goal by resting their players if that's the strategy.
The NBA doesn't care much about the sport itself, but profit. They just want to sell the product. If it means making offense overpowered and forcing stars to play in meaningless games (LET'S BE HONEST, REGULAR SEASON IS MEANINGLESS MOST OF THE TIME), so be it. This would never happen in football.
The NBA should reduce the amount of games so each game meant more. It's that simple and I know it would ruin statistics etc, but that's the only way of approaching this. NBA players play way too much nowadays considering how fast these 7' dudes need to be running etc. It's nonsensical to have this many games with so many injuries (it makes sense, but only profit-wise).
This policy makes me mad. It pretty much forces coaches and teams to risk their main goal just because the league cares more about revenue than showing which team is the best.
@@calamorta I mean, that's because football teams have to balance and prioritize trophies. You rarely get "just rest for the sake of it" type of rests. Usually it will be choosing one competition over the other. And if the team is too deep, maybe a bench or a young player wanting to get time to prove himself or get experience etc.
NBA teams treat regular season like CL clubs treat the final group stage game after they guaranteed 1st place. If the regular season had a valued trophy, maybe that'd help but even then NBA season is just too long. Also I am not sure if adding such a trophy would fly in NBA. For soccer, the audience cares about leagues because they are their national league with its own rivalries and history. I guess winning a treble could be a thing for NBA, with mid season tournament, regular season, playoffs? Idk. It just feels weird because you play same teams for all 3, there are no lower league teams that will potentially promote up.
@@calamortaI’ve been saying this since 2019, completely agreed. These regular season games are so useless, it’s honestly annoying and frustrating as an NBA fan. I’ve stopped watching most reg season games and just wait until post-season now honestly.
Bc Kawhi exists. They thought well and hard abt it bc all you’re describing is half of Kawhi’s career. They clearly outline genuine injuries are okay and even resting players is okay but you can’t be egregious about it. How bout you actually look up the policy? The full thing is available and all over socials.
How about the fact that not a single meta-analysis (or even a single fucking study) has shown that load management reduces the risk of injury. Shohei Ohtani had injury issues when he got to the MLB. He and his team (the Angels) decided to stop doing load management. When the load management stopped, the injuries stopped. The fact of the matter is that these guys are getting paid tens of millions of dollars to dribble a fucking ball. Charles Barkley got it right. If you aren't hurt, then play the damn game. If you don't want to play the game then go out and get a real job like the rest of America.
The league is different now. While there’s less “physicality”, players are still stressed. Rather than being worried about being pummeled, players are moving more than ever, contesting a ton of 3s, switching a ton on defense, more transition opportunities, etc. I dunno what the answer is, but injuries suck. Load management wasn’t the problem. Also, for the NBA to say that the science was wrong without giving any evidence is insane
Torque more torque is used now
Indeed, pace and space puts so much stress and strain on your body. The game is much faster, the 7 seconds or less Phoenix suns would be last in pace in the current nba...
The pace is so much faster now
Load management has always been the problem. Kawhi is the pioneer for it. Now suns & Clippers gonna be the teams to rest more players watch 😂
@@minuit9189 Kawhi literally has a degenerative quad
This reminds me of what my wife went through years ago when she started having debilitating back issues. It took her out of work for a while and when she tried to get long term disability from work (where she sits at a desk for 10 hours a day) they sent her labs and imaging to an independent doctor who determined it wasn’t legitimate and she was denied disability. Not one in person physical examination by this doctor, and I thought as a medical professional myself (paramedic), that was interesting that they could make that diagnosis without ever seeing someone and physical examining them. This is going to be that same thing and the players and medical staff will be correct in defending themselves saying that these independent physicians aren’t there and shouldn’t be able to make that kind of determination just by looking at imaging, but never talking to the players themselves.
i doubt its more of the stars not wanting to play and the teams wanting to manage their massive investment. the nba has adopting a win or buss mentality so it doesnt make sense to risk further injury with a 2nd game of the season. the circumstances are alittle different here then your wifes situation.
@@alxfonso4924ngl usually the stars want to play as much as possible, but the teams want them to rest in order to protect their investment. It doesn't make sense from a business pov to play your stars if there's a bigger chance of injury
@@alxfonso4924 wtf are u talking about. Nobody ever said anything about players not wanting to play. And if you’re not in the medical field u probably can’t make the correlation I’m describing so please excuse yourself from my thread ❤️
@@josepht5331my guy your a paramedic…. Not really in the medical field yourself, don’t get too high and mighty.
@@sexy13ITCH0000 😂 read a book child
When a superstar is forced to play when he has foot soreness became of the player participation policy and then he gets a major injury, THEN WHAT! The NBA will look stupid.
If Booker said he has foot soreness and he cant go, then Suns needs to due their due diligence in protecting their player no matter how these whining fans feel about it. Its about winning a championship.
And when the team is eliminated from playoff contention they’ll shutdown the player for the year 😂. The league should give discounts on the games where the the star players sit out.
I think one way to fix this is attacking it from the opposite direction, so you make a rule mandating that the minimum games a player can miss is 3, so if its legit soreness or an actual injury you should need at least 3 games which is approximately a week. Buts if its for a bs reason its much harder for team to manipulate if the player had to miss 3 games.
My EXP with modern Doctors, they wanna do what the patient want. I don't wanna protect the NBA there but Docs most of the time are lying as well. Now imagine a Team doc that has a close relationship with the player. He wants what the player want. I feel like if they get off the game and sit on the bench they should just get paid less.
Hey Doc! You should take a look at Eric Brannstrom’s hit from the NHL yesterday. It was during the Senators vs. Islanders game, I’d love to know more about what happened!
Clearly doctors are not behind these types of policy changes. I would be curious to hear what a doctor like yourself would propose as an alternative.
The answer is either fewer games in the season or more time between games, resulting in a longer season. Pretty simple.
@GlacialScion But false sitting is still equally possible in those scenarios if it's just a change in scheduling.
Also, you need to play 65 games to qualify for awards. Booker will definitely be up for awards. Using one of a possible 17 games missed in game 2 for anything other than a legit reason wouldn't be smart.
I wonder if we are going to have a season of guessing if injuries or real or fake. It has never been in Booker's demeanor to rest so I don't think he is missing the game for rest.
The policy is doing the best it can. It shows the NBA's sincerity. The teams just have to show sincerity in return.
@WyattWillis88 Nah. The players sign their own contracts and know what they're up for. You want to make millions of dollars? You need to play 65 games of basketball a year. If you don't, then you don't. Simple as that. I don't think you can say the league doesn't care about the players well-being when they're shelling out millions and millions of dollars for even bench warmers. These are some of the best athletes in the world, and you're telling me they can't play on day 1 or 2 after a clean off-season? That's trash in my opinion.
@WyattWillis88 that doesn't make any sense. If you're right and it's gargantuan no matter who plays when... well then why the hell do they even care who plays?? Of course it matters who plays. Of course. The fact of the matter is they do care who plays because better players generate more views which generates more revenue which generates more money even for the players on the bench. I totally get if they have a real injury, but big toe soreness??? I mean please, let's be real. If the only rule I had to follow was I had to play 65 games a year and make $30 million, you damn sure I'm not wasting a game on my big toe.
@@WyattWillis88The profit is the same either way. The contracts are the contracts.
The well being of the players is not to play professional sports at all so how far do you want to take this?
But, yes, the actual solution -- reducing schedule to 40-60 games -- is only not tenable because of greed. But let's not act like the players didn't sign up for this. They are 50% of the vote. I didn't hear them talking about shortening the schedule either
They don't care about awards they care about this 💵💵💵💵💵
@@robertcuratolo5339 Awards = money
Jaylen Brown made an extra $70m solely becausehe made All-NBA last year. Players (and their agents) care *very* much about awards
Clinical notes should always include your objective tests (i.e., a lachmanns test for ACL, or the suite of deltoid ligament tests for a sprained ankle), functional tests, and your *interpretation* of those tests in the context of the overall athlete's readiness to play.
I think if the NBA enforces team medical staff to satisfy this minimum standard of note taking, it will empower the independent physician to make far more informed judgements about whether an athlete is actually unsafe to play
The problem cannot be fixed if the league and media treat playoff success as infinitely more important than regular season success.
Then the rational thing is to minimize regular season wear and tear for even the slightest advantage in playoffs.
Josh Okogie is now the face of the franchise
Lmao 😂
I literally commented this on a diff post y'day. Teams will NEVER have to disclose a players injury officially unless theyre put on injured reserve. Therefore you can sit a player and list them as questionable due to some vague random prognosis thats complete nonsense.
My inclination from the very beginning was that this sort of “player participation policy” was an absolutely terrible idea for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it’s an inherently and unavoidably unenforceable idea, and after reading the official policy document my inclination has now become something more like virtual certainty. It’s honestly mind blowing to me that an organization with the resources of the NBA could possibly think for even a second that this policy would ever accomplish anything for the league other than serve as a potential (if not probable) source of embarrassment.
I’m 32 and if I play a couple games of pickup I’m having to rest my knees for a couple days..I could only imagine having to play a NBA game or a back to back on top of the practices….
Same here. I'm 33. I rarely hoop anymore due to rest time.
Yea but you don't have the body or the personal chef by your side so it's very different
@@NNOutBurger_Gamingbodies wear down. Chefs and injections can only do so much. That’s why LeBron barely moves these days. Mostly camps by the 3 point line saving energy for the 4th. His body is slow, his joints hurt and adrenaline can only do so much. Then the next day his body is a wreck.
@rayrey90 they've been doing this since primary school the body adapts
You think TRT would help you with recovery?
Do you think this is an issue of players competing and practicing more than they actually train their bodies to be stronger and tougher?
Also, some time ago i saw a video explaining that the frequency of player injuries might come from players ironically being TOO talented thus they put thei bodies in all these weird angles and positions and changing speeds, etc.
Is this about the video wher ethey days that today's NBA players are more injury-prone BECAUSE they play too much while in their childhood/teenage years? They focus too much on playing Basketball alone that the muscles/bones/joints/tendons most used for playing the sport are already worn down BEFORE they can even play pro.
People are blaming the players but the Owners and GMs want these players to rest. They want these players at the end of the year to make playoffs pushes and to get far in the playoffs. As long as money is linked to the playoffs…players will be resting bc it’s in the best interests of the Owners.
Well, it is the USA, and we all know capitalism comes first. 🎉🎉
Rested players when chips
But your wrong because the actual science is saying load management isn’t working, at ALL
@@oblivionpro69where the hell did you pull that data from?
@@oblivionpro69source?
they need to just reduce the number of games, eliminate back to back games. 60-65 games instead of 82. less is more.
Players are not taking that pay cut. But I do agree on the no back to backs.
If they were to find a way to link it to the playoffs, fake injuries would be a non-issue.
This to me is the answer:
Split up the 82 fame Marathon of season into best of 3 series. Every week you play one game every other day against the same team. best of 3 takes the series.
This means no back to backs. Less travel. And you get to earn rest days by sweeping the other team.
Could you please make a video on the Clutterbuck hit on Brannstrom in the Sens vs Isles game?
can you do the Erik Brannstrom injury in Senators vs Islanders please?
this was an amazing video! glad to get some content on policies within the NBA
Could you do a video about Adam Johnson? He’s already deceased but I’m curious about it from your medical perspective.
I think the problem is the NBA is trying to make these players be available for when they only go to certain markets once a year. If its a road game and you know a player from the opposite conference is only gonna be in LA once this year, they wanted to make him available for the LA fans that PAID to come see him, they will only face the Lakers twice this year. But if he has a lingering issue with his foot that the team docs are well aware of and someone outside will look at his records and be like oh his foot is fine, he can play well, the NBA would be on the hook for anything if that player goes out and really messes something up in that foot that the team docs that are with him every day said he needed to stay off of for maybe a game or 2, it may not be something that needs a 4-6 week rest period
I think the other issue is that the NBA even though it is only 82 games (if you don't count the play in and this mid season tournaments which is only gonna increase the chances of injuries since they are playing more games, that are not related to the postseason) but its a lot of travel and a lot of back to backs. I have always been a fan of shortening the preseason or spacing out the season a bit longer so they can rest, so you don't have to see Kawhi or PG or AD miss games due to just rest
This policy alone should turn off NBA fans from attending live games and watching NBA games on TV. It's ridiculous at this point. The NBA makes the money from the FANS. These players make generational money and they play half a season.
I didn't bother to watch the Lakers/Suns game last night. Not even a full week into the season and this is already going on smh
These players today are not built like NBA players from the pass.
yeah why don't they have scheduled off-days/days off like MLB players have? For example, I believe it was the 2022 season but the Braves had three guys who played in every game of every season with no noticeable or unusual drop in production, aside from normal hot and cold stretches. However, there are players who benefit from a game off every now and then... why doesn't the NBA do this???
Not fair for fans to pay a lot of money to not watch stars play. In baseball there's double the games and tickets are less expensive
Last month my achilles tendon tore and recovery has been ass, now when I see these athletes performing at such high level now I understand why they need to treat pain as serious as possible.
You have to understand the business of the nba. You can't take the review policy for load magement as a genuine lockdown vs resting players. It's showing due diligence on there part. That's all. It eliminates flagrant lies regarding injuries and shows the TV station and their billion dollar deals that they are cracking down. Let's not assume the narrative is other than it is.
It shows they care about profits above all else. If you want to bench anyone at anytime because of a strategy to succeed later in the season it should be your team's decision. How anyone could have any takeaway other than this is mind-boggling
You clearly underestimate the extent of the NBA's behaviors of due diligence if it means trying to protect their golden egg. Especially during Stern's run as the commissioner and how he turned what was once an unprofitable league in the 80s into a multi-billion dollar machine. And Stern did so with an iron fist.
Wait until a team tries to rest a player and they get fined, only to have that player get injured in the near future following the fine.
Would a team file a low suit against the league?
i love your videos always! i am an accountant but medicine interest me for some reasons
They should start to get paid per game... this is getting ridiculous
This is like having crooked cops being tried in tribunals by fellow cops. No physician is gonna call someone out like this, unless it’s incredibly egregious.
Dr Brian, this whole thing is performative for the upcoming TV deal
Can you make a video on Erik Brannstrom's injury in the NHL game last night?
As an NBA fan who aspires to be a doctor this man is the greatest doctor of all time.
The NBA can easily fix this problem. The rule should be a player has to miss a minimum of 3 to 5 games if they miss a game due to injury. I doubt a team is will willing to risk losing 3 to 5 games to rest a player.
Please do a video on Jared Vanderbilt's left heel bursitis. Thank you in advance.
I was hoping you’d make a video on Chelsea Gray’s injury during the WNBA finals because her injury was huge for the team and in general. Hopefully you’ll include injuries video of women athletes in the future.
Forcing players to play is a terrible idea. After all, teams have a qualified squad and are entitled to rotate players, prevent injuries and fatigue, so players are fresh for the playoffs.
Book and Beal are clearly hurt, you think we're sitting them against our biggest rival for no reason? Absolutely foolish
Cp3 playing back to backs at 39 years old and these young guys sitting out. Absurd.
Michael Jordan played all 82 games !!
I wonder what kind of liability the league will face if someone wants to sit, league says you're good, and they get hurt (worse) in the same spot the player/team said was an issue.
Maybe a settlement if its a one off. Then maybe do away with the experiment if it isn't feasible in the long run. NBA certainly has funds reserved for legal situations and would easily pay off those fees which would be a drop in the bucket to protect their golden egg.
I tuned into watch the game and was looking for Booker then I immediately turned it off found out he was load managing. I’m waiting here for college basketball to start.
I agree, but the real rule that will avoide rest is the one that qualifies them for All nba selection and can cost them millions
Booker and Beale’s situation doesn’t classify as load management. They’re hurt. We can’t say it’s load management every time a player misses a game. Now, the Donavan Mitchell game that he missed against the Pacers sounds like loss management to me. He completed the game against the Thunder and he misses the back to back game against the Pacers.
My head is in pain from these discussions.
I’m going to begin load managing how much I watch NBA 😂
Imagine a family in poverty saving up for years to bring one of their children to a game to watch their favourite player… then that player sits out cause their foot is sore. Pain is subjective so you can never really say but history shows us this wasn’t really an issue up until a couple years ago, and the point the sport is at now we should have the best training and rehab methods, yet stars are missing time and fans are out ✌️
Occupational hazard, you get paid millions upon millions, figure it out.
IMO
Who says the best training and rehab methods exist for these athletes now who have been playing more basketball in their lives than guys before and thus have a higher chance to sustain these related injuries? Its nice you try end with the punch line as occupational hazard and they get paid millions but the fucking league makes multi-BILLIONS of annual revenue every year. So of course these athletes with their union would negotiate for a price they know they could get considering its just a drop in the bucket for the league execs and owners. If it was so easy to figure out, you wouldn't have to make a shitty example about a poverty family scrounging up to buy their kid nose bleed tickets to an NBA game and get disappointed because the childs' favorite player sat out.
Lol dudes built different these days, what injuries do they even have?
It's wild because Russ was going crazy last night and he's older than both booker and Beal ... Russ built different though.
russ is a lot stupider
Russ is a tank
We will probably never see brad, Durant and booker at the same time for more than 25 games this season
you cannot expect any human to do so much of anything...especially at the highest level of sports....basketball isnt the most dangerous sport injury wise but its still a contact sport, injuries exist...also allowing for a rotating squad allows for development of new talent. i personally follow football and im of course used to seeing an ever changing squad of 11 depending on what the stakes of the match are (domestic league, donestic cup, champions league, international breaks, all these events happen concurrently one of after the other, pretty cool right?) if the nba ever wants to dominate basketball globally like Europe has done with football the fan base will have to accept that you cannot expect to see your stars play always...the trade off is that youll get to see your favorite player compete for 3-4 championships every year, all meaningful, instead of just the 1 play off trophy....in the future i could see the basketball equivalent of a champions league being something like a global championship, cause essentially the champions league winner is without a doubt the best team in the world...if your team has won the champions league they have most likely won the domestic league as well and maybe the domestic cup on certain occasions, a treble
Instead of fining players for resting, why not just shorten the season from 82 down to like 52. NBA is too greedy to do that though
You can hear a future physician at 6:02
Content 🔥🔥 as per usual lol
They rest in soccer too. Balancing champion league requirements with their main league. The whole mandate is dumb.
There is an easy fix to this. Let the players go on strike due to a new collective bargaining proposal that states you are paid per game. In fact, they should propose these players be the highest paid hourly employees in the history of employment. Its amazing how injuries that seem to be so prevalent aren't so common when your not paid when you sit out.
In school they call it truancy for too many absences.
In the NBA how do they even regulate this?
Either way, fans will still watch the games.
Not true in regards to fans still watching. Regular season ratings justify it. I didn't even bother to watch the Lakers/Suns game last night. You want to see teams compete at full strength. Why didn't Book sit out the Warriors game then if this was an issue? Large reason why I have minimal interest watching regular season games, especially when football is going on
All I care about is Zion & Kawhi stay %1000 healthy for a full season n playoff run bc I love watching them 2 play 😅
1) There should be ZERO games on back to back nights. There is no excuse. Make it happen.
2) The league forcing players to play when they know players wear down during a season is a complete joke.
Back-to-backs have existed for as long as the NBA has. Why is it only a problem in the modern day?
@@jbizz80 .. Because players of the past didn't go all out during the games. They knew how to get their rest in plain sight.
But it doesn’t event seem like load mgmt helps to reduce injury risk, so why would eliminating back to backs help?
@@jicalzad .. Back to backs increase injury risk.
@@JohnCarterIsMyNamewhere the data on that?
I wish the NBA would attempt to alter their schedule in an attempt to space out these games to allow more rest days in between games. Instead they add a stupid in season tournament, and the grand prize is 2 more games they have to play!
having just watched fd signifiers video about running backs my workers rights sense is tingling when i see that bs policy.
They need to play far fewer regular season games. It would actually give the games a lot more meaning too. 2 games a week. That would never happen because money is a thing but still…
Did they NBA come up with policy when Tim Duncan only played home games at the tail end of his career? Pretty much saving him for the playoffs and injury prevention?
Don't most orthopedic tests have pain recognition as the determinating factor for a positive test?
As in, the physician performs the test and asks the patient if it hurts, and if the answer is yes, then it is a positive test? 🙃🙃
The problem is Ben Simmons and Kwae Lenard etc some of them sit and aren't hurt at all.
Nice shirt and tie it’s fye
You get their whole history, not just the last couple charts. You'll be able to see the paper trail at least....
Is personally being there that much of a needle mover above documented processes!?
The stars of the league have been allowed to do this for seasons, there’s no going back now
Good thing the NBA has a big influx of talent lately.
As a Team Physician for a professional football team, I Agree 100% .... Thank You.
Do you guys still use Toridol? I got a shot in early 2020 before people realized covid was everywhere. I felt amazing for a few hours.
They sure are making sure the Lakers didn't start 0-2 smh
This. It would be bad for the league 😂
What I find even more insane is the fact that Joel Embiid is already missing the home-opening game... in the first 3 games of the year... he is "resting" during the home opener. Insane. I'm not a fan of the NBA at all anymore, it's getting pretty pathetic to see.
Yes, this is coming from a fan perspective, and I know I would never compete on their level. Yes, these athletes are probably never 100% healthy. But, product wise, it's some of the worst it's ever been. It's crazy how games were more physical and medicine was less advanced but we didn't see this as often as we did now.
@@ThatsNotVeryFunnyLol Less advances in medicine and therapy just meant guys like Ralph Sampson had 3 seasons to maximize the potency of his career because he always had medical flags. That never went away even in the modern era where you have Joel Embiid average less than 60 or so games played every season and the fact that he didn't even play his first 2 years after being drafted. Anthony Davis is the best case scenario where outside of two seasons with 75 games, he's always played 60 some games himself and even less later in his 12 year NBA career. It doesn't help the game is more involved with lateral mobility now which is punishing on joints regardless of how athletic these guys are.
You can't and shouldn't force players to play that's how you end careers. Obviously everything needs balance im sure some guys sit out when they could play but we have no way of knowing or proving that to then force everyone to play because of the possible few is highly destructive. Everyone cries about guys like D Rose then shit on guys like Kawhi. Make up your minds
You're missing the point of the policy. The NBA is not stupid and they know it won't work. It's purpose is to help on negotiations with the upcoming TV deals to show that they're doing "something" about the rampant rest and degraded product they're trying to sell
what was the sound around the 6 min point ? a cat?
Please give us a Vid of Colorado Avalanche Captain Gabriel Landeskog. He Hasn't played since the Avs wont the cup and literally laid it all out on the line the last minutes of game to win the cup.
Saying a third-party physician won't weigh in on an "injury" or benefit is incorrect. Insurers do it every day (unfortunately). With that said, I agree with your point that most "injuries" will just be vague.
It's tough.. there is nothing the NBA can do really.. they will lose viewership. the end. a great matchup like last night will just be skipped.. i'm not watching a happless suns team play the lakers at full strength and same the other way around... oh well
Can you make a video about the freak accident that happened to Adam Johnson RIP
I expect averages for ALL NBA players will go down. There's going to be games where they're hurt and they'll play less minutes just so they hit that 65 game mark.
Why is this a problem at all? A team can't be in its best shape all the time. So it is normal to do all you can to be in the best shape for the most important games.
The biggest problem is not resting players. It’s that the NBA doesn’t appreciate how many superstars they have because of resting players take it away and you’ll eventually lose superstars to injuries.
The third possibility is that team Dr's are just following their orders and participating in the player resting strategy. Yes, this means they are lying and not being ethical, but Drs do this every day for financial benefit.
Also, the league should be able call out dubious team physician claims. This is how insurance carriers deny benefits. The Dr paid by the insurance company denies claim without ever speaking to patient or patient's Dr. Unfortunately, this isn't going to happen in the NBA, bc the teams and players have the leverage and the resources to fight back.
I don’t follow the NBA, so I need people to educate me. Why would teams purposefully choose to not have their best players play? Is basketball that hard on your body that players need to take breaks from the game? I seriously don’t understand why a healthy player would choose not to play.
The policy is dumb. They did have a problem to solve, though. The NBA is a star-driven league. Many people won't turn on a game or buy a ticket if they don't think the stars will all be playing. They feel cheated when they tune in or show up and find that the stars aren't playing. The NBA needed to do something, but this isn't it. I personally thing they just need to shorten the increasingly irrelevant regular season, but I know the NBA will never do that.
“Soreness” is just as much of a BS reason as “rest”.
The problem has always been players sitting for Nationally televised games. I’m not saying Booker should’ve played but dudes resting for years had lead to this.
The Laker Vs Suns game was fucking boring. That’s all I know.
The only way to get players to play is if fans stop watching the games
It's already crazy enough that the league made a policy for this... and the players hate it when they're called soft smh
It's fine though these teams don't have chemistry come playoff time and they lose anyway so resting is a detriment
DO THE NHL PLAYER THAT JUST PASSED AWAY ON THE ICE . RIP ADAM JOHNSON 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
As someone living with chronic pain, doctors not believing patients pain is somewhat of an issue. This is not the right approach. I don't know what is, but this is not.
this is probably a lose lose situation no matter what. i think realistically the only way to get more players to play games is to have less playoff teams and lower number of games (making each game more important) but then the nba makes less money so they're never gonna do that. you can do minimum games for awards, but i dont think that will do much.
The only fix is cut the season games to 50- 65
Players would never take that pay cut.
Owners ain’t tryna lose tv money lmfao
Need to give out game suspension to the players that sit out on purpose
This is why the nba has dropped off so much and the sport is dying off. Not only is it make west or east all star lineups or even team USA when kd was on GSW. All of the superstars pick their spots to play because deep down regular season doesn’t mean anything 🤷♂️. When you have kd, Booker and Beal you can have them miss half the games get a lower playoff seed and kick it on it’s just a very bad sport nowadays.
"Resting" players and legalized sports gambling makes me not want to watch sports anymore. Tired of the constant betting ads.
What do you mean subjetive? I'm starting to get worried about my next doctor's appointment. Isn't the study of medicine supposed to be based on objective reality? I'm sure there's room for dissent on particularly difficult cases, but I would like to believe they are not making stuff up as they go. I mean if a leg is broken is broken, right? I hope so at least.
If a player has a slightly pulled mussel, how do you determine if that player can play just by reading a sheet of paper that says "Player X has a slightly pulled calf?" Maybe player A can play through that, but that does not mean player Z ca .
Well, you establish parameters, while the meaning of "healthy" is a tricky one, you
can definitely setup a system that allows medically sound decisions vs "I don't feel like playing the wizards next week" decisions. Especially since Adam Silver has made it clear he is not trying to go back in time to the 70s NBA. And if a case is really impossible to define, then you don't and allow the player to make up his mind.@@csolivais1979