Load management has been one of the terms that’s heavily doing the rounds in the NBA, and an ESPN writer blamed the AAU for the issue on the league.
“The current ‘load management’ debate is simply not rooted in science or medicine,” wrote ESPN’S Baxter Holmes. ” A major factor: Many players now enter the NBA with badly broken bodies.”
ESPN writer blames AAU for current load management issue in the NBA:
“The current ‘load management’ debate is simply not rooted in science or medicine. A major factor: Many players now enter the NBA with badly broken bodies.” pic.twitter.com/6FUMHEc08v
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Baxter blamed the AAU saying parts of it were excellent, however, there were parts of it that were broken. In his column, the writer said that younger players who forayed into the NBA were “broken” and that translated to injuries in the league.
Speaking to Baxter, one of the NBA managers called it a sad state of affairs. “It’s very sad, where a kid has an NBA body, he’s got NBA talent, he’s got even an NBA mentality, but he doesn’t have a body that can withstand the rigors of the training and the actual games, whether it’s to get to the NBA or just to hold up. It’s a tough deal.”
The ESPN analyst noted that in all of the interviews he had conducted in the past two years with team and league officials, former players, AAU coaches, and parents, the common answer was that players “are physically broken down by the time they reach the NBA.”
NBA Reportedly Mulling Over Target Score Implementation For Overtime Games
Such has been the emphasis on player load management that the NBA is reportedly considering implementing target scores for games that stretch to overtime.
Per Bleacher Report’s Eric Pincus, the league could completely swap the format of overtime games, implementing target scores instead of adding the extra five minutes on the clock.
“A potential change could be the use of a target score, but just for overtime,” opined Pincus. “That would prevent overlong broadcasts and overloading player minutes, like Los Angeles Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard’s playing 46 minutes in a double-overtime loss to the Sacramento Kings on Friday.”
This report comes in the aftermath of a double overtime skirmish between Sacramento and LA, which saw players cross over the 40-minute threshold.
While this will surely garner mixed responses from fans, only time will tell if that move proves beneficial for players.
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