10 people are seriously injured this season! The NBA is fast-paced + intensive schedule, who is overdrawing the players?

This year's NBA game is heartbreaking - Tatum's Achilles tendon rupture was reimbursed for the season, and Pelicans' Murray, Bucks' Lillard, Pacers' Jackson, Heat's Smith and Nuggets' rookie Holmes are all the same problems; including Mavericks' Irving, Hornets' Grant Williams, Nets' Melton and Magic's Wagner, 10 people were seriously injured this season. Even Bridges, who is known for his "Iron Man", is tired. How is this playing basketball? It's simply "being forced" with your body.

Behind the injury wave: the schedule is too dense, and the players become "permanent motion machine"?

Barkley recently complained that the nuggets schedule is unfair, which is not unreasonable. The Nuggets played the tiebreak in the first round, and the second round G3 just ended until Friday night, and G4 was arranged to the next afternoon - With less than two days off, how can you not get tired and paralyzed when you ask a teacher?

What is even more heartbreaking is that this is not an isolated case. The NBA playoffs are now basically one game every two days, and there is at most one day off when changing home games; the regular season is even more outrageous: 4 days 3 games, 7 days 5 games have become the norm, and players are also required to attend. What's the result? Stars like Curry and Tatum are all injured without confrontation - Which of them is not tired?

Why are players more "crunchy" now? Fast-paced basketball is "secret consumption"

Some people say: "The current confrontation is weaker than in the 1990s, why do you like to be hurt more? " The answer is just two words: rhythm. In the past, the team averaged 80-90 rounds per game, with a large number of positional battles and few outside runs; now, it averaged 100 rounds per game, and converted offense and complex running became the mainstream. If you run more, change directions, and stop more urgently, your body loss will be doubled directly.

Legend Garnett said: "The players are so awesome now. If we are the old guys, we may not be able to withstand it." In addition, in the midseason and playoffs, a championship team will have to play more than 100 games even if they win the playoffs - their bodies are not iron-kicked, so how can they withstand such exhaustion?

Alliance doesn't know how tired it is? The "dilemma"

driven by interests is here: Don't the league know whether the players are tired? Of course I know. But the NBA is a commercial league, with market value rising, broadcasting selling, and "spinach" cooperating. All of these have to be supported by the number of games.

After Xiao Hua took office, the NBA signed a sky-high broadcast contract of 11 years of $77 billion, the team's market value doubled, and the salary of players increased - where did this money come from? Rely on tickets, broadcasts and advertisements for 82 regular season games. If you want to score regular season games, ticket revenue will be reduced directly, and the discussion and broadcast volume will plummet, and the league will never agree.

Xiao Hua also said: "There is no evidence to prove that injury is related to the schedule. " He is certainly satisfied - the injury of the star affects the brand, but he may feel that the risk is controllable than the less money he earns. But the team boss is more panicked than anyone else: Irving was injured, the Mavericks were eliminated directly in the play-offs, and the home tickets were wasted; Tatum was reimbursed, the Celtics collapsed directly, and their surrounding income was affected. Can

be adjusted? Will the league dare to try the tricks made by fans?

The most common plan for fans is to score the regular season. Scored 82 games to 58 games (each team and the other 29 teams play 24 games each), and fairly. But as mentioned earlier, the league will not agree - 24 games less, 1/3 of the money less, and business interests will be damaged.

Then take a step back: adjust the playoff interval? For example, the first round has changed from two-day one game to three-day one game, playing 2-3 games a day, and the discussion level does not decrease, and the players will take one more day off. After the Nuggets tied with seven, they took two more days off in the second round, and they would be able to recover a lot of their condition when they asked for a teacher; if Tatum rested for two more days, the risk of Achilles tendon rupture may be low?

Players are not machines, health is more important than traffic

The injury wave this season has sounded a wake-up call for the NBA: players are not perpetual motion machines, health is the foundation of the league. When fans watch the football, they want to watch the peak showdown of the stars, not the ones who dragged their legs and carried them hard.

The league needs to make money, but it should also be "loosening" for the schedule - Play two less regular season games and one more day off the playoffs, which may make less money, but it can keep the health of the stars and the enthusiasm of the fans. After all, without the stars, who can watch the intensive schedule?