nbaoffseason:

For all those medical experts —both real & imagined— who have messaged, emailed, & reblogged my initial rant that Stern & the league are to blame for Rose & other player’s injuries this year, let’s let Mike Wilbon go on, shall we?

He’s not the only one. Dwight Howard, who had played more than 550 NBA games since high school, played in 98.7 percent. He missed seven games. If not Superman, it’s Ironman. Yet, Howard, after back surgery, is done for the season, just like Rose. Old guys such as Chauncey Billups (Achilles) are done for the season, as are young pups such as Ricky Rubio (knee) and Iman Shumpert, who like Rose crashed to the court Saturday without contact.

One after another, players would go down. Players of significance, we’re talking. Al Horford, Brook Lopez, Eric Gordon, more recently Ray Allen. Hamilton would say, “See, I told you. There’s nothing like this season.”

Again, my blaming the Commissioner for these injuries because of the way the season was structured is not stating some medical fact. It’s simply my opinion(plus Wilbon & others) that the lack of preseason, an average of one game every two days, & having some teams play their first playoff game with a little more than 48 hours of rest, led to a higher than normal occurrence of injuries. However, for those of you stating it’s just a random coincidence that injuries like Rose having his knee explode or that ACL injuries have nothing to do with the wear & tear this season caused, you should get a clue. I’d also suggest getting a refund for that medical degree, or, more likely, read more than a WebMD article before preaching that you definitively know the injury plagued NBA season of 2011-12 just happens to be because of bad luck. That’s not just my opinion, it’s a fact.