re: To help players, like Kawhi playing 46 minutes, the NBA may try target scores for OT

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My point is players back in the 80’s and 90’s played basically every game unless it was some MAJOR injury. Sore toes and a bruised knee shoulder pain or a headache these guys played through. If todays players have all the new ways to make themselves better then why are they soft as charming tissue.Anthony Davis wouldn’t last ten games back then.

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And my point is a lot of what you are attributing to players not playing through bumps and bruises, Toni Davis aside, is organizations protecting their investments.

It's also a different type of injury a lot of times.

In the older days it was bumps and bruises, from a game with a lot of one on one iso banging of bodies, in today's era of hyper athleticism, its hamstring strains, achilles soreness, and rolled ankles. the former of which modern medicine has learned you don't frick around with cause it can end careers. So teams get an achilles soreness diagnosis and they are paying that guy half their salary cap and is the difference between being a contender and a lottery team, most franchises are sitting that guy one to two weeks minimum.

And I think that is the part of this whole equation that isn't going to change no matter how many games they play or not. The goal is to reduce the number of occurrences, but when they do occur, there is no world where billion-dollar franchises with 50-million-dollar players go back to telling those players to rub some dirt on their strained hamstring in game 20 of an X number of games season and get back out there.