NBA Stories: Professional athletes losing their natural body resistance

Professional athletes losing their natural resistance

     What is going on with this generation of basketball players? Broken bones with all that technology and fitness, not to mention the body protection and the non-contact rules to provide less physical entertainment (which also makes it less competitive but anyway...)?! It never happened to us who are now in our 40s...but then again, we were doing sports since 1st grade playing on rusty baskets and concrete grounds with crack in them, we had no video games etc.

    I noticed this happening first when Paul George broke his tibia bone in two after landing on that allegedly too close positioned basketball post. No, it was his mistake he miscalculated the distance and practically tried to jump out of that arena only to show off. Then it happened to Gordon Hayward when Jae Crowder pushed him from the back while Gordon was in mid-air trying to make a rebound. BTW, the world today is so PC that no one ever dared to tell the truth about the intentional - yes, you read it right, intentional - push. There was only one reporter who did that after the game Gordon got injured when he implied the accident actually being an intentional act but got the denial of a clearly disgruntled Crowder.

     Now in October 2018 it is happening again. This time to Tyler Ennis who was mediocre player in the NBA but got a good deal this year when he went to play in Europe. His accident is even more minboggling.

     He was dribbling the ball and running along an opposing player when he slightly bumped into him and then slipped. The moment he used his left foot as an anchor to slow down, his left leg broke down in two around the middle with the main bone hanging out. What the hell is wrong with this generation of players?! These kind of things don't happen to kids who run and play out in the streets. It only happens to drunken people who fall off roofs. I swear these athletes are soft as cheese!

     Millionaire professional athletes you see everywhere now start(ed) playing ball LATE in their teen years so their body is soft. In other words, athletes today are not used to the hardships of body development in a non-friendly (not always) athletic environment. In case you still don't get it, I will spell it out for you: these youngsters don't walk, run or jump properly; they are just big and fast and follow an intensive training program that puts money into many people's pockets who don't really care about the health issues of the players. For example Derrick Rose shouldn't had been allowed to play professionally due to the anomalies in his bone structure. Yes, we all move differently. But some players are limping on the court since day 1 of their career! And nobody seems to notice it because the money is flowing...

     There are a few players who never experiences horrific injuries during their career but those are the ones who spent their childhood playing in the streets while learning to avoid falling on hard concrete playgrounds and getting injured badly. I will only mention Rafer Alston, Stephon Marbury, Allen Iverson, Sebastian Telfair who are famous to this day on the streetball circuit.

     In conclusion, you have to be exposed to life in order to learn to live, in sports words to play hard from an early age against tougher opponents. That is not the case of the NBA players in 2018 whom grew up together and played basketball as teens without physical contact to protect each other the same they do later in their professional career when they don't interfere on the defensive end of the floor anymore so nobody gets hurt and everybody keeps getting their multimillion  pay-checks.

     Basically now we have a Mafia & politician mentality where the NBA commissioners are the Mafia and the NBA players are the politicians: "I protect you and let you keep some of the money, you protect me and make me a lot of money" and just like politicians, "you let me score and be a leader, so later I can let you score and become a leader". I bet you never thought about that! One thing everyone knows, professional sports especially the NBA lost the competitiveness which can only come with player's loyalty for a favorite team and a tough challenge both offensively and defensively against the opponents. Confused minds create soft bodies, low standards with easy goals produce bad quality performance. And that's the NBA today. Congrats millennials for dumbing down a sport that once was extraordinary...