Luka out 3-6 weeks Grade 2 hamstring strain
Reaves out 4-6 weeks Grade 2 oblique injury
Please send your condolences to me cause, I’m just devastated.
crazy how oblique injuries are so common now. i don’t remember them ever happening before ~2 years ago. maybe they were just called something else?
Injuries in general seem like they’re at an all time high. When I started watching basketball as a kid, playing 82 games was almost the norm.
With the Mid-Season tournament and Play-In round, teams are playing more games without extending the season, leading to more back to back games. Players are not getting a chance to rest minor injuries before they get worse. In general, the scheduling seems so bad. One week a team will play 5 road games then the next week they will have 1 game, at home. I don’t like the fact that most back to back games tend to be away games. If the league needs to schedule back to backs, they should be home stands. A team should not be spending the few hours they get off between games traveling.
As for players not playing 82 games anymore, I think it has less to do with players not being able to play and more with teams realizing that it is better to get a couple less wins in the regular season than to enter the playoffs with an exhausted superstar.
