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[Charles Barkley] “If you’re making $30M, $40M, $50M to play basketball four days a week … Man, if you can play, shut the hell up and play.” (streamable.com)

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[–] therealbeef@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (25 children)

You don’t ever see hockey players taking games off for load management. You can’t force those guys off the ice on game days. NBA players are soft. Still love the league, but they soft. Ain’t no dawgs in this league compared to the NHL.

[–] frauenarzZzt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Respectfully, with the amount of jumping and running in basketball and the size and height of these guys there is way more stress on the joints than in hockey. Hockey players' calves would outwork any other sport in the universe, and those guys can take a punch, but basketball is a more all-around athletic game. There's a reason why hockey players can play until they're almost 50, and it doesn't have to do with the players being 'tougher.' If that were the case then baseball players would be done after a year and every NFL player would play 10+ years.

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