re: ESPNs contract with the NBA

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NBA players are 3.5x more likely to be injured on the 2nd night of a back to back.


I don't know if that's true but assuming that it is... pretty damning from a health and safety perspective. It's very daft to force them to play as well because a season long injury to a star doesn't help the league either.

I know people don't care but in my industry people force unsafe behavior for near term money. It rarely works out well as unsafe practices cause bad results eventually.

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I've read the link to this data ,but need more information than that . Non contact or contact injuries? Major or minor injuries?


Kawhi Leonard & Kevin Durant were recently injured on road games after back to backs & are now one of these statistics.

Leonard got an elbow to the head & Durant's own teammate was thrown into his leg.


These injuries had nothing to do with back to back game fatigue & could have happened opening night.