https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/presents19071734/end-82-game-nba-season
Great article on the case to end the 82 game regular season.
Great article on the case to end the 82 game regular season.
I've tried to see this from the "pro-resting" point of view, but I just can't wrap my mind around it. I think back to the 80's when teams didn't have chartered flights (making travel much more difficult) and I don't remember Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, or Karl Malone openly campaigning for shortening the season. I hear players complain about back-to-back or 4 games in 5 night stretches and I think about working class people who toil for much less money and I just can't find the sympathy.
I agree.I've tried to see this from the "pro-resting" point of view, but I just can't wrap my mind around it. I think back to the 80's when teams didn't have chartered flights (making travel much more difficult) and I don't remember Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, or Karl Malone openly campaigning for shortening the season. I hear players complain about back-to-back or 4 games in 5 night stretches and I think about working class people who toil for much less money and I just can't find the sympathy.
I've tried to see this from the "pro-resting" point of view, but I just can't wrap my mind around it. I think back to the 80's when teams didn't have chartered flights (making travel much more difficult) and I don't remember Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, or Karl Malone openly campaigning for shortening the season. I hear players complain about back-to-back or 4 games in 5 night stretches and I think about working class people who toil for much less money and I just can't find the sympathy.
I've tried to see this from the "pro-resting" point of view, but I just can't wrap my mind around it. I think back to the 80's when teams didn't have chartered flights (making travel much more difficult) and I don't remember Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, or Karl Malone openly campaigning for shortening the season. I hear players complain about back-to-back or 4 games in 5 night stretches and I think about working class people who toil for much less money and I just can't find the sympathy.
So let me get this straight... these guys are being paid 4-5 times what they used to be getting, less physical play with much more 3point shooting and hand checking rule, and they now want to play less games too?
Wow, ok.
Holy ****. Again, this is nothing to do with the players. This is what management and MEDICAL EXPERTS are suggesting. So people who study the body for a job are telling these managers to sit if their ultimate goal is winning in the playoffs/prolonging their million dollar investments. No idea why people always bring it to the players being "weak".
Also, pretty crazy, but getting paid more doesnt prevent injuries.
Then just stretch the season so there are no back to backs. Which the league is trialing next year.
I still stand by my proposal:
1. Stretch the season a to liminate back to backs; and
2. Have a 2 weeks break between the regular season and the playoffs
I'd be surprised if teams still rest players during the season if you do this.
Why do we need 82 games?
It's good for the fans, the more games the more fun.
It's good for the NBA, the more games the more money they make.
It's good for the teams, the more games, the more popcorn they sell.
It's good for the players, the more games, the more money they make overall (provided there is enough rest time in between which is what I suggested above).
Win/Win/win/Win
All those things are proven wrong by the NFL. Did you even read the article when it explained the value of scarcity?
If that is your reasoning, why not play 100 games?
You're talking about 2 different sports and 2 different markets. You can afford to make your product more scarce and premium if your product is already the most popular on the market.
The level of athleticism, and thus wear on the athletes' body, has grown considerably across the league.
Also not sure how this pertains to the article at all or how your complaints make any sense.
"I hear players complain about back-to-back or 4 games in 5 night stretches and I think about working class people who toil for much less money and I just can't find the sympathy."
Players arent really complaining, they are just doing what management and trainers are telling them to do for the best chance to win a championship, which our NBA society has placed the utmost importance on as far as legacy and greatness.
This isnt about making things "easier". It's about delivering a better product for the fans. Do you want to see players getting so banged up by the time the playoffs come they can barely even play? It makes no sense. I dont get why so many people are stuck to convention of how things use to be. **** changes and you should change the rules to compensate to make the best possible product. You can beat your chest and say "Oh well back in my day players were tough". So you really think basketball players have evolved into wimps? That doesnt seem likely.
So at what $ amount does this phenomena occur?Look, I understand there's a point/counterpoint to every argument. I've really tried to look at this from all sides objectively and every time I come to the conclusion that this is a manufactured argument coming from spoiled millionaires. I do disagree with you that players aren't the ones complaining. Is it coming from every player in the NBA? Of course not but the quotes are out there if you care to look for them. As far as the doctors chiming in, I'm sure an NFL player would perform better and stay healthier long term if he only played 10 games per season. Wow, what a stunning revelation!! Nobody's disputing that. My argument is, aren't these players getting payed millions because of the grind that they subject them to? I don't cling too much to the "back in my day" argument, but I think the NBA was much more watchable in the 80's and 90's and every single "problem" with an 82 game season existed then just as it does now.
"The NBA is harder than the NFL, even if it doesn't have the big contact injuries," Elliott said. "NFL games are brutal on the body. At some positions they are head-to-toe bruise, and then they basically rest from high-intensity loading for five or six days."
NBA players, Elliott said, seldom have time for meaningful recovery.
"Dr. Marcus Elliott, who founded P3, a sports science lab headquartered in Santa Barbara, has studied hundreds of athletes from both the NFL and the NBA, and the physical toll each sport takes on its players
NBA pace and intensity has gotten so high. It's so ballistic, with accelerations and change of directions, even the athletes who are best adapted to play the game incur some tissue damage, with muscle soreness generally peaking 24-48 hours out, at which point they can be playing another game after a long flight and crappy sleep. Do this 82 times, plus playoffs ... that's a recipe for injury."
The level of athleticism, and thus wear on the athletes' body, has grown considerably across the league.
Yes we have better athletes in the here and now but don't we also have better sports medicine? Better sports science? Better nutrition? Isn't it all relative?