Day 271

Fresh Start_271: 65-game NBA season, please!
I know people overreact to stuff in sports that they shouldn’t overreact to. But, with the Isaiah Thomas injury, that makes 3 major players in the playoffs with injuries that effect the series they are in. Leonard, Parker, and now Thomas should bring the question of “should the NBA season become shorter” to the forefront again.

If you forgot, this question was thrown around about a month ago with the minute discussion. The whole Popovich “were saving players careers” and whatever Lebron’s excuse was. I personally sided with the players and coaches to have the opportunity to take the games off. It’s the NBA’s fault for scheduling so many Nationally Televised games in one week.

These injuries are awful to the teams and for the product of the NBA, but all of these factors have to make the NBA question what the scheduling of 82 games does to the players. Even with the high class treatment and medical staffs that the NBA and players have—82 games is way too much for the NBA. The wear and tear on the players in an 82-game season, on top the playoffs is way too much to ask of the players. The idea that players will bring it for all 82 games on top of the playoffs (Westbrook is the exception because he isn’t human) is absolutely absurd.

Lebron obviously a unicorn and doesn’t get hurt to be able to play 14 seasons and not get hurt, but that doesn’t mean everyone has the ability to do that. Shorten the season to 65 games, give or take a couple of games, to make a potential sweep of the playoffs 81 games including the 65 game season.

Why is this so difficult to understand and make happen. If coaches and players want to sit out games at some point in the season, let them. It isn’t that hard to believe that you or I won’t have “our all” every single day at work, so why do the NBA players have to do it? Is it because of the money, because if you or I had more money to do our jobs, we wouldn’t want to do our jobs either. And who’s to say that a personal day here and there doesn’t prolong our work career?

Just do this already to make everything good in the NBA world and lower the potential to get injured (in theory) and shorten the season. It’ll make the players play better, lessen the chance of injury, and make the games that we do get nationally better. It is a win-win situation and the NBA can’t go wrong.
Sources:(espn.com)

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