Zion is not too heavy

The way he carries his weight and his proportions are the issue. He’s built different than most NBA players. He’s pretty top heavy

And it’s not any single movement. It’s stress based. Over time stress on a certain part of the body will cause issues. It’s why a lot of big men have joint issues. Too much weight on a moving part of the body creates stress, which will lead to heavy inflammation over time and stress fractures

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As a medical professional, I can tell you that everything they say about his weight putting excessive stress on his joints is purely theoretical. And muscle is absolutely different than fat in terms of force distribution.

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His weight and his height are defined by BMI as obese. He’s obviously not fat or unhealthy, but that obese weight has the same impact on his knees as that of a person with the same weight in fat instead of muscle. That’s excessive force compared to what forces should act on his joints, with the standard being a healthy weight. And he’s doing far more force with his explosiveness than almost any other athlete in the world. That explosiveness is acceleration, and his mass being propelled is greater than any athlete with that explosiveness, so he’s creating more force on his lower body than any other athlete. Joints are not meant to go through extreme force continually, and he’s not going to stop leaping explosively, so you need to reduce his weight to reduce the force

The only question is how the force is distributed across his knee. That I agree with. Which is why they’re changing his gait to reduce the load on the most problematic area

Is energy dissipation in muscle proven to reduce force on joints? Only seeing effects on muscle peak forces

And BMI is still very commonly used. Not sure where you’re getting that. Using it to measure healthiness is where it’s obsolete

Yea using it to measure body fat is outdated like I said, it’s for general body mass, which doesn’t differentiate between fat and muscle. I see it used to compare size of a person’s build to an average, generally showing whether they are lean or bulked or average

What I’m telling you is that measuring general body mass has fallen out of vogue, because it’s been shown to not be an accurate predictor of injury risk. It doesn’t work to show lean or bulked or average bc it can’t differentiate between fat and muscle.

Killed it. Fat me and muscular me, still shitty knees, but not nearly as painful once I got back into shape.

He also needs to stop landing on one leg.