Last I heard he may still play against us on Thursday, which seemed weird when I heard it because it goes against Pop's views on getting his players healthy. Could be wrong but that's what I heard 1-2 days ago.
damn so much for spacing the games out more with less back to backs. players are still getting injured.
I really think that 82 games for a regular season is too much these days as players are pushing their bodies to athletic limits to be competitive in the NBA. How about this: 4 games vs. division teams (4 x 4 = 16) 2 games vs. non-division conference teams (2 x 10 = 20) 1 game vs. non-conference teams (15 x 1 = 15) = 51 regular season games I'm sure the NBA can come up with creative ways to acquire revenues lost from lesser games.
That's cutting out 38% of the games. I'm not sure there is a way to replace the ticket sales, concession sales, and reduced media contracts to make up that much. And neither players or teams want to give up revenue. If you just bought a team for 1 billion, you aren't about to agree to that. If you are up for a new contract, you aren't about to agree to that. Players have had this schedule, but with much harder travel, since the beginning. I think they need to give this a decent run before making any more decisions. Plus as a fan, it's already hard to compare eras. If you reduce the games by 38%, you make records like Kareem's all time scoring completely out of reach. The same number of games is one of the few things that stretches across eras right now.
Totally agree with your post. I had the NFL in mind when suggesting a reduction in games for a season. Despite just a 16-game regular season, it still manages to earn $13 billion in revenue each year (Source: https://howmuch.net/articles/sports-leagues-by-revenue). The NBA just isn't loved as much as the NFL and MLB, even more with the hubris with the league nowadays. Unfortunately, all-time records don't care about eras. Cap's style of play didn't make him injury-prone plus the sky hook is money. One has to have a career average of 24 points per game, play 82 games for 20 regular seasons to surpass that. It can happen, though too drastic, if the NBA turned into this:
I saw an ESPN notice that boogie tore his Achilles. I wonder why more players are getting this injury. Unfortunate.
I've wondered that too. Ever since Kobe went down it seems they've been happening more frequently. Probably not. Wow that changes a lot of things. Terrible timing for it to happen to DeMarcus.
I'm reading today in Times a "tear" that will sideline him rest of season. It wasn't a complete rupture like Kobe's, which is what I was assuming?
Feel terrible for Boogie. He seemed to be finally putting it all together & in a positive environment, All Star Starter & in a Contract Year. This injury just cost him Tens of Millions of dollars..
