[Leftcoast]

IMHO the NBA hasn't played basketball for some time. The game they play allows so much contact that eventually things like this injury become inevitable. Yes, this was beyond the norm, but the norm keeps moving towards more and more contact. Undercutting opponents, either on purpose or accidentally, happens often. Just as in football, when the players get bigger, stronger, and faster, more injuries will happen. I realize that they are never going back to playing basketball, but I just hope the women's game doesn't follow the same trajectory.

Play keeps moving to more physical?  To my eye play looks much cleaner than the 80s/90s game.  The success of the Warriors with their free flowing, motion offense in their early championships would have been impossible in, say, a 1990s NBA ruled by either Chuck Daly's Detroit or Pat Riley's Knicks/Heat.  Some of this is attributable to a set of rule changes that favor offensive flow and limit contact well below the bar allowed in previous eras.

Whenever, I'm tempted to yell, "Let 'em" play I have a flashback to Robert Parrish slugging Bill Laimbeer (blindsided him away from the ball really) in front of a ref during a televised NBA playoff game and only getting a regular foul called. I take a deep breath and come to peace with most whistles.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/remembering-t...44262.html

[Leftcoast]

IMHO the NBA hasn't played basketball for some time. The game they play allows so much contact that eventually things like this injury become inevitable. Yes, this was beyond the norm, but the norm keeps moving towards more and more contact. Undercutting opponents, either on purpose or accidentally, happens often. Just as in football, when the players get bigger, stronger, and faster, more injuries will happen. I realize that they are never going back to playing basketball, but I just hope the women's game doesn't follow the same trajectory.

Play keeps moving to more physical?  To my eye play looks much cleaner than the 80s/90s game.  The success of the Warriors with their free flowing, motion offense in their early championships would have been impossible in, say, a 1990s NBA ruled by either Chuck Daly's Detroit or Pat Riley's Knicks/Heat.  Some of this is attributable to a set of rule changes that favor offensive flow and limit contact well below the bar allowed in previous eras.

Whenever, I'm tempted to yell, "Let 'em" play I have a flashback to Robert Parrish slugging Bill Laimbeer (blindsided him away from the ball really) in front of a ref during a televised NBA playoff game and only getting a regular foul called. I take a deep breath and come to peace with most whistles.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/remembering-t...44262.html