Player BREAKING: Wemby Expected to Miss Multiple Weeks with Left Calf Strain

[LeBowen]

If this leads to the league looking more seriously into the possibility of reducing the amount of RS games, at least something good might come out of all those injuries ...

The league shouldn't reduce the number of games unless the players accept to take less money. Proportional amount compared to the reduced number of games, that is.

If you ask me, the season is too short because of let's call them ancient traditions.
Why not start a month earlier? Or even in early September?

Even the finalists would have 3 full months of rest.
Right now players that miss the playoffs have 6 full months between official games, just why?
Please don't tell me that they wouldn't be able to take the strain of playing the same number of games, but spread over an extra month or so.
Remove road B2Bs, remove 3 games in 5 days and it gets way easier.

All we read about all summer long is how players are spending their days at the gym. Might aswell do it properly.
Mid-August training camp, preseason in early September and the regular season starts mid-September.

 

[onechance87]

If this leads to the league looking more seriously into the possibility of reducing the amount of RS games, at least something good might come out of all those injuries ...

That means less money for everybody which nobody wont agree to.Gotta just open the roster spots to perhaps 18 spots.Let teams
have more bodies.Stop this requirement of a number amount of games to win awards or effect players salary.Its a new era
where players are gonna need rest and take some time off during the season.It is what it is.

 

[wemvp]

Every sport except football plays way too many games. NBA and NHL should be 50 game seasons and MLB should be 80. In the modern age with so many distractions it's hard to keep up with it for a full season. I'm also a big Dallas Stars fan, go to about 5 games a season and at least 2 or 3 playoff games, and every year I sort of check out of watching as much around January and pick back up in March. Same with the Spurs when they were good (last several years I stopped watching by January because they sucked).

I have a wife and 2 teenage daughters. I don't have time for 82 game seasons.

The reason the NFL is so popular is because they give time to breathe and anticipate. Playing once a week just fits the modern schedule so well.

If they want to keep playing 82 then the NBA and NHL should extend the season. Start the season in late August and finish in late June. Cut preseason to only 1 week. Spread the games out so players arent dropping like flies. No more b2bs

 

[Spurs Homer]

I think todays shoes are a big factor in these injuries…i hardly see players wearing high tops (ankle) anymore…

 

[LeBowen]

I think todays shoes are a big factor in these injuries…i hardly see players wearing high tops (ankle) anymore…

Maybe for ankle injuries.
Tatum wore high tops, never had any injuries and his Achilles just snapped.

 

[Area 51.247]

Interesting data I came across:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1990810201725796485

Edit: not sure why Tweets are embedding all of a sudden... tagging @ffadicted just in case there is something to look at.

Here is the chart for good measure:

I’m gonna beat this to death but I don’t feel this is fully indicative of actual player injuries.

This seems way more about overly cautious teams holding players back.

Right or wrong it seems this is the way things are going to be.

Maybe it’s coddling players but more so about protecting their long term investments.

Just a quick, unreliable paper and pencil survey of the All-NBA lists from the last three years shows about 27 unique players, with those experiencing significant injury issues this year including LBJ, Halliburton, Embid, Tatum, AD, George, Kawhi, Lillard, and Fox. Lot of older, chronically injured players there.

 

[Arcadian]

There goes his DPOY Award again too tbh.

Nah. He'll still win it - unless the blood clots come back.

 

[rascal]

Utterly disgusting

Fuck steve kerr i am sure this is no accident

Most Spur fans didn't complain when Bowen was giving cheap shots and undercutting players. Kerr didn't have anything to do with the cheap shot by Podziemski. Just an inferior frustrated player unable to guard Wemby.

 

[SupremeGuy]

Fuck.

Draymond green is 56 years old and curry is 53 and they never miss games…wtf?

Curry's ankles were shit early on in his career. That dude sold his soul to muhammad for new ankles or someshit.

 

[SupremeGuy]

It does make me wonder how many games Kobe and Jorden would have been made to sit out had they played in today's game

Bruh Jordan literally had it written into his contract that he could play ball whenever he wanted and shit. No fucking way were either of those guys missing games unless it was a major injury.

 

[Kick-Stand]

Bruh Jordan literally had it written into his contract that he could play ball whenever he wanted and shit. No fucking way were either of those guys missing games unless it was a major injury.

Ended up wrecking Kobe's late career where he went from top 5 to top 150 or so thanks to that achilles tear at age 34.

 

[SupremeGuy]

Ended up wrecking Kobe's late career where he went from top 5 to top 150 or so thanks to that achilles tear at age 34.

He had been playing pro-ball since 18. Injuries are bound to happen if you play for that long. Also damn he was only 34? I don't know why I felt like he was older. I guess he annoyed the fuck out of me and the Spurs for so long that it felt longer. lol

 

[DTW]

Good backup bigs were a concern going into the draft and there were ones there that maybe could have been had (Kalkbrenner being one of them that I really would have liked if Raynaud didn't want to be away from Stanford), yet for whatever reason, they passed on it. Seems to me, they're a bit clueless on what the team needs with all the guards they got. Not sure what they're trying to do with all the PGs, SGs/pseudo small forwards they're trying to play at SF.

I could be wrong, but I think they would have selected Sorber had Bryant not been available at 14 and I do think it'll be a focus in '26, given the logjam at guard/wing.

 

[spurraider21]

He had been playing pro-ball since 18. Injuries are bound to happen if you play for that long. Also damn he was only 34? I don't know why I felt like he was older. I guess he annoyed the fuck out of me and the Spurs for so long that it felt longer. lol

yeah. and to his credit he individually played really well during that last healthy year when he tore his achilles at the end. it was the shitty D12 lakers, but he was dragging that team to the playoffs especially in the second half of that year.

 

[Kick-Stand]

He had been playing pro-ball since 18. Injuries are bound to happen if you play for that long. Also damn he was only 34? I don't know why I felt like he was older. I guess he annoyed the fuck out of me and the Spurs for so long that it felt longer. lol

He was determined to drag Howard to the playoffs at any cost; and it cost his late career. 38.6 mpg playing 78/80 games as the only dependable man on the roster was just way too much of a load at that age. Honestly think he could have aged like Curry or Tim if not for that tear because he had added a lot of old man skill into his game by then.

 

[pad300]

my understanding of freakishly tall guys having injury issues are mostly skeletal, as is their bones are not strong enough to support that much mass moving at that speed and that rigorously.

Wemby, , does not have any issues with his bones so far, and most specifically bones in the lower half of his body.

When these tall freaks have career ending or altering injuries, you are talking back, knees, hips, ankles and such. Not a blood clot or a muscle strain.

Ralph Sampson's knees destroyed his career.
Porzingis had issues with mostly his knees.
Yao Ming had issues with his foot and ankle.
Muresan had foot and ankle problems (also due to his unusual growth).
Rik Smits and foot and knee problems but he still played like a dozen years of which most were relatively healthy.

I think your data doesn't support your hypothesis. Your examples were not bone issues for the most part, rather they were joints (ligaments and so forth). It's not the mass on the bones, it's the leverage generate by really long limbs...

 

[ambchang]

I think your data doesn't support your hypothesis. Your examples were not bone issues for the most part, rather they were joints (ligaments and so forth). It's not the mass on the bones, it's the leverage generate by really long limbs...

May have remembered wrong then but I could’ve sworn Sampson had knee (bones) issue and Yao Ming broke his foot multiple times. Same with smith.

Also thinking of it Zydrunas Ilgauskas had foot issues as well.

 

[rjv]

nice to see that last season's thrombosis experts are now calf experts.

 

[TBdog]

That’s the time that the InSeason Tournament goes to Vegas, and everyone else gets two seemingly random games scheduled.

Thanks