Thinking Basketball Podcast, my name is Ben.

My name is Ben.

Welcome back to another episode.

Today we are going to dive into some of the science and data behind

load management to really try to paint a complete picture of what that what that means what it is

There's been a lot of noise around it especially from older players talking about it and fans lamenting it and so just wanted to give some justice to the science and the biomechanics and

some of the data we have on that particular topic. But first, before we get

into that, a quick story.

I live here in Los Angeles, and there are celebrities

and public figures, actors, and musicians everywhere.

And you see them as part of your life.

You don't see them every day, but it's, you know,

it's sort of typical to end up in line next to them

or sitting next to them at a table,

or they walk in front of your car in the crosswalk or things like that.

That's pretty standard.

And I have, my brain does weird stuff, it plays weird tricks on me.

That's why I end up writing books about how your brain plays tricks on you. My brain thinks

it sees celebrities everywhere. And this has become somewhat of a running joke in my house with my wife especially where you know I

tap her on the shoulder when we're out and I say like that's that's Omar apps over there and you know she says oh no it's

not Omar apps and I say oh it's Mike Tomlin the coach of the Steelers she says no it's

not Mike Tomlin it turns out to be like a five foot three guy who doesn't look anything

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