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As the NBA pushes through another high-intensity season, troubling signs are mounting and some of the league’s most respected voices are calling for change in the form of the Golden State Warriors’ Steve Kerr and Los Angeles Lakers’ LeBron James.
Both the head coach and elite player have raised urgent concerns about the toll today’s game is taking on players’ bodies as the league is pushing athletes to what appears to be a physical breaking point.
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Kerr, who once played four consecutive 82-game seasons during his time with the Chicago Bulls, has called for a drastic reduction in the regular season and even petitioned the NBA Commissioner to reduce the number to 65.
“I’m concerned about the product because I think we are asking way too much of our players,” Kerr wrote to Adam Silver. “The game has never been more difficult to play at a high level night after night after night. We should account for that.”
His comments come amid growing evidence that the NBA’s physical demands are becoming unsustainable. Despite advances in training, recovery, and travel, injuries have surged.
By April 10, players had already missed 6525 games due to injuries, nearly 1,000 more than the same point the previous season as the problem seems to be spiralling out of control.
Vincent Goodwill of Yahoo Sports traced the rise in injuries to a deeper systemic issue: the early specialization of athletes as they are choosing basketball sooner and sooner.
Rather than playing multiple sports, today’s youth focus solely on basketball from a young age, overusing the same muscle groups and building up wear-and-tear before reaching adulthood.
“It’s not on the NBA to regulate what they do,” Goodwill said. “Because players are coming in with pre-existing conditions.
“Have your kids play soccer, have them play football, have them do something else besides working that one muscle every year from the point that they’re eight or nine years old.”
What is the potential solution?
LeBron James, whose 59,042 minutes are the most in league history, also weighed in. On the Mind the Game podcast, he proposed shortening games from 48 minutes to 40. Over an 82-game season this would reduce playing time by 656 minutes.
“The 40-minute game is intriguing, it gives it a little bit more of a sense of urgency,” LeBron said, referencing the excitement of international competitions like the Olympics, which use the shorter format.
For the Laker, the call is not about easing into retirement-it’s about preserving a game he’s carried for two decades. So the reduced minutes would not only lessen the strain but also reinvigorate the flow and urgency of NBA contests.
But both Kerr and James acknowledge the difficult trade-off: reducing games or minutes would mean reducing revenue and the Warriors‘ boss admitted as much as The NBA’s recent $76 billion media rights deal underscores just how high the financial stakes are.
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