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truly the worst possible timeline

remember when david lee almost died because somebody bit him on the elbow and the bite got infected

what i'm saying is, i hope that's not what's happening to kyrie

yea bacterial infections are some scary shit

tbf david lee is made of soft cheese

show some respect for an all time great warriror

our first all star since Sprewell

and the 2015 Finals MVP

david cheese

so Kidd follows the Mark Jax coaching playbook?

yup, minus the religious angle

the players actually liked mjax tho

*some of

KD needs to stop shooting.

not words you see very often

i say let the man hoist

i hate that i'm saying this but this is going to be a big win for the wiz

i'd like to thank myself for jinxing the wiz lmao

terrible collapse

Hhaaaa

towns vs jokic for a playoff spot leggo

nuggets with failing to score on 3 straight BLOBs in the middle of this quarter is mind-numbing

btw, john wall!

I fuckin love torrey craig

man that was a great game!!!

john wall is good at basketball

the tnt show is so embarrassing man

ugh that jokic shot should have counted

This wolves game is too tense
I hate these alt uniforms

Friend texted me, got this text from a friend of his that works for the Wolves:

"I strongly content that Andrew Wiggins is the black Michael Cera"

Lost the lead
Here we go

this game is Good

Good game sorry ums you’re not out of it completely

Yeah it's kinda interesting I wanted to bounce the off you guys but actually basketball is bad and dumb, just for for thought

defensible

had to go to bed and missed the second half, but wow, huge fuckin win for the nuggies. sincere apologies ums :(

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2768696-how-did-kyrie-irvings-injury-go-from-bad-to-worse-weve-got-answers

There is another possibility. With the rise of sports science and armies of injury-prevention staffers in place, teams may be increasingly more risk-averse when it comes to bringing guys back from injury.

With more information than ever thanks to wearable tracking (outside of games) and fancy sports-science departments, it seems teams are being more careful than ever. Some in the league think that's the good, safe approach. But others believe the DNP-rest movement has gone too far, erring too much on the side of caution rather than understanding that playing basketball will always present reasonable risk. One executive called it "paralysis by analysis."

Injuries are up by 10 percent, but time missed due to injury is up by about 25 percent, per Stotts' analysis. So, yes, players are out longer.

that's an interesting dimension that i hadn't thought of. could be a fluke given some of the weird injuries this season.

Yeah it's kinda interesting I wanted to bounce the off you guys but actually basketball is bad and dumb, just for for thought

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 6, 2018 12:18 AM (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol drunk phone typing

the wolves don't really deserve to make the playoffs if they can't win games like that so i guess it is what it is....

Im cool with guys taking full recovery time because it means more of them will have full careers instead of being broken down at like 30 but we’ve definitely had a lot of freak injuries this year and it seems to have randomly hit star level guys more than anything

The pace thing is interesting though I wonder how the injury rates match up with earlier high pace eras overall

Friend texted me, got this text from a friend of his that works for the Wolves:

"I strongly content that Andrew Wiggins is the black Michael Cera"

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, April 6, 2018 12:14 AM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is hilarious

I’m still I need mourning over kyrie btw but it is now kind of funny how the kyrie isiah trade wound up being a swap of damaged goods

Hopefully temporarily damaged in kyrie case

The pace thing is interesting though I wonder how the injury rates match up with earlier high pace eras overall

― gis for westbrook shark jump (agent hibachi), Friday, April 6, 2018 10:28 AM (seventeen seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

in the historical highest pace eras no one really played any D m/l just ran back and forth hoisting, if theres something about todays game thats causing more injuries its prob more like pace + intensity/style of play, like literally double teaming wasnt a thing in those classic wilt/russell battles nowadays everyone is rotating constantly so theyre not just running up and down the court theyre running side to side which is prob way more taxing on the body since theyre cutting jumping reacting and so forth while doing it

not that long ago when they iso/post up were bigger parts of the game and they played slower there was a ton of standing around not doing much during the game

maybe the league should go back to everyone playing in hi top chucks

I figure as much as well lagoon I’m just curious data wise if early faster eras had high injury rates too since barely anyone stretched and like three guys played above the rim. Agree that the amount of ground covered and lateral movement is much higher for a lot of players now, seem to recall some articles a few years ago about various swingmen who had to switch from bulking up in the offseason to losing weight and aiming for flexibility to stay on the court

Wish evolution could catch up and grant us a full ball joint knee adaptation or something lol

Ha yeah now if you stand around more than a few seconds a game you get a spot of shame in a weekly z lowe column or roasted by Twitter all season (looks at John wall)

its crazy too nba guys are cosmically huge and athletic but theyre playing with the standard issue tendons we all have

jazz up to the 4 seed now

jazz/rockets round 2 is gonna be fun

o shit wolves might not be dead yet

Jimmy Butler returning for Timberwolves against Lakers tonight https://t.co/6X2388qstU

— Kurt Helin (@basketballtalk) April 6, 2018

we need u jimmy help us