Name: NBA Faces Crisis as Star Players Continue to Battle Injuries
Uploaded: 2025-11-20T14:33:15-05:00
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Description: NBA stars face more injuries as the game speeds up and the 82-game season takes a toll, says Warriors' coach Steve Kerr. Colin Salao joins to break it down.

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NBA stars face more injuries as the game speeds up and the 82-game season takes a toll, says Warriors' coach Steve Kerr. Colin Salao joins to break it down.

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Meanwhile, just in the past week, NBA stars like Giannis, Victor Wembanyama, John Morant, and more have picked up injuries, sidelining them for a period of time, which has now led Warriors head coach Steve Curtis say he's very concerned that the NBA's increased pace of play combined with its condensed 82 game season is leading to an increase in injuries. So let's bring in front office sports reporter Colin Sellau for more. So Colin, tell us a little bit more about what Steve Kerr is saying here. Yeah, so Steve Kerr was asked before the game against Orlando on Tuesday, um, about, you know, the, the injuries because of the announcements of injuries like you said to Wem Benyama and Giannis, and he, he said it was, there's a dramatic, there's been a dramatic increase in pace um in recent years and that's really attributing to these injuries he believes. I mean, You, you, you don't have to look further than Steve Kerr for witnessing a soft tissue injury with Kevin Durant back when they were trying to win the championship in 2019, right? So it's, it's Steve Kerr is someone that really is aware of this and he's kind of saying that. There's not a lot that can be done um because the season is so long as well, right? He's, he said that his medical staff is aware of the increased pace, his medical staff is also saying that that's a big issue, but not a lot can change unless the season is shortened, uh, and that's not really going to change either because that is, um. That is like the revenue of the league is contingent to those number of games. Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned all that because it, it, that's been the big question here is would the NBA even shorten the season. He's arguing maybe it should go to 72 games, maybe chop off about 10 games here. But it's interesting the amount of stars that are getting injured. Yahoo Sports' Tom Aber show tweeted that nearly half of all NBA stars are. Currently injured and stars are missing twice as many games as they did just a season ago. I mean, if it gets to the point where, you know, all of a sudden this is impacting the media deals where on NBC the other night they're supposed to have this big, this big game between John Morant and the Grizzlies versus Wemy and the Spurs, and neither can play. Doesn't that then impact the product that the NBA is trying to highlight here? Yeah, I mean, Haberstro brought up a great point. He, he, one of his stats was like. NBA stars in the first month of the season are missing 1 in every 3 games compared to 1 in every 9 in the past. I, I, I also brought up very early on in the year that I think it was like 8 or 9 NBA stars were injured before the season even started and not these are not just one-off injuries, these are a few weeks up to full seasons. To your point, I think it does really impact games, you know, Zach Lowe says on this podcast all the time. He, he tells the story of How he was trying to tell his friends who aren't NBA fans that he was going to watch Jokic in New Orleans and then Jokic didn't play, and he's already one of the players that plays pretty significantly. So I think to your point it does have an effect, but the NBA just signed this media deal, so, and that's an 11-year deal, so will that, that really affect them right now? I think it's somewhat of a medium to long term issue that they just have to solve before that um that deal resets.

NBA Faces Crisis as Star Players Continue to Battle Injuries

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