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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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[–] just_so_irrelevant@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Load management is such a damn hoax. Sitting players does nothing.

If people really give a shit about keeping athletes healthy long-term they need to stop looking at the NBA and look at youth basketball. The AAU grind means kids are coming into college and then NBA with an insane amount of wear and tear on their bodies.

Not to mention kids specializing in basketball only rather than playing a variety of sports, which leads to the same ligaments and body parts getting overworked extra hard.

Dudes in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s used to play 70-80 games no problem. Injuries weren't more prevalent than they are today. That's because players back then hadn't destroyed their bodies at a young age by routinely getting up at 7 am for their next AAU game to get highlights for their Ballislife mixtapes. Shit's wild.

[–] MailManMESSIAH@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

There's an argument that can be made for Load Management being more detrimental than helpful.