2019/20 Players' Transactions: Breaking News , Trades, Free Agents, And Rumors

I appreciate that Kyrie continues to try and help our AD trade negotiations, maybe it’s a favor to LeBron. He dropped his agent and is rumored to want to sign with the guy who owns part of the Nets, he hasn’t said a word about returning to Boston, he appears to be out. Nice of him to stick it to them on the way out by basically saying you can trade for AD, but I’m not gonna be here.

 

Wow, terrible



Warriors lost 2 players to injuries that take probably a whole season to recover from. Kinda makes sense why the Finals games were mostly 3 days apart now. Maybe the season does need to be shortened.

 

The NBA has operated this way since the 60s...I don't think necessarily that the amount of games is a reason for the injuries. Its just bad luck IMO.

With that said...I don't see the benefits of a season that is played between November and April and includes 6 months off for non-playoff teams and 4 months for the finals teams.

I would prefer a shortened off-season of 8 weeks max. And games like twice a week. This gives players opportunity to work out during the season and play during the season. It also takes away pressure from young players to exhaust themselves in the summer and come back ready to get hurt by the intense compressed season.

Soccer has been very successful spreading games out. NBA is just cruel...playing 4 times a week with all the travelling is crazy.

As the games move away from skills to athleticism, people maybe tend to be more at danger of getting hurt. On the other side teams have stopped bruising and going to the rim...they just jack up threes so it can't be that much more "athletic".

There are always arguments for and against something..

 

I actually think the level of athleticism does have something to do with it, the pace these guys are playing at isn’t helping either. LeBron played at a faster pace this year than he had in years and he end up getting injured. These guys are huge and strong now, and you’ve got 6-8” to 7 foot guys running around handling the ball like guards and doing stuff big men rarely used to do, it’s a different game now. They also didn’t play 4 rounds in the playoffs in the 60’s, or this many rounds of best of 7 for a while after that either, it’s a ton of basketball. I don’t think it’s bad luck that the team that has gone to 5 straight Finals (3 in Durant’s case) had 2 guys go down with season ending injuries even if it were game 1 of the season, it’s too much for their bodies to take. I don’t know if less games is the solution, what you propose might indeed be better, but I think something’s gotta change. 2 seasons so many big name guys were injured there was that joke about LeBron’s all-star team being cursed. Guys like Porzingis and Cousins went down with major injuries probably in part, because again, they’re out there playing like guards and small forwards instead of traditional bigs and their bodies break. Like I said, I don’t know the solution, but I definitely think they need to at least look into ways to minimize this. This season they started earlier in October to minimize back to backs, and I don’t think there were quite as many major injuries, so that may have helped, I don’t know, maybe that was a good start.

 

We need to trade for this guy.