Cutting the NBA Season Won’t Reduce Injuries

Real reasons NBA injuries keep rising: 1. We created a generation of single-sport specialists. No baseball, no football, no track - just AAU mileage from age 8 onward. 2. Teams don’t practice, so players overtrain the wrong way. Hours of skill drills, zero live scrimmage. Then they’re asked to go from 0 → 100 only during games. 3. The shoe revolution backfired. Low-tops freed the ankle but shifted the load up the chain - Achilles, calves, hamstrings.