The NBA competition committee, meeting this week in Las Vegas this week, should tackle the high -level trend of Achilles tendon injury, which during the playoffs put an end to the seasons of the Jayson Tatum stars, Tyrese Haliburton and Damian Lillard.
In total, seven NBA players fell with a break from Achilles last year, the others being James Wiseman, Isaiah Jackson, Dejounte Murray and Dru Smith during the regular season. In this week’s summer league, a plethora of orthopedic companies arrived to weigh with opinions and training proposals designed to explain or prevent injuries.
“It looks like there must be a thousand people of performance here, I suppose that the sale of their goods,” said a manager of the NBA team. “But (the Achilles epidemic) is something. There is no way that it is not something. We look at how people play, what the return movements mean, how fast the game is.
“Everything (in terms of injuries) in basketball is below the size, and when someone gets a painful calf, I think the first thing you will see is that people will not play. No matter if they are erased medically. They will say:” I am not 100%, so there is no way that I do it. “It was starting to happen in the past year, but I think that with what happened, it is that any player who does not feel 100% in the calves, or in his calf, will not play.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver Expressed his concern several times and would have gathered a panel of experts to identify the reasons for the trend, which could go from the duration of the season to the game all year round to high intensity training regimes.
