Yeah.

All right.

Welcome on to a very special Haan-Zer and Duncan in which we will not begin with

the witches cackle because perhaps people might misinterpret that as thinking that I have

cursed the NBA with the annual now rash of playoff injuries.

So where we're going to start here is John and I took some time to think at least

preliminarily about what the NBA could do to reduce injuries in the playoffs. Because we've

talked some about reducing games in the regular season. I think that is something that should

happen and probably won't. But the playoffs, the seven game series is sacrosanct. You really

couldn't spread out the time between them much more.

But maybe then what has to happen is that gameplay needs to be changed in such a way that players don't get injured as much.

But without, of course, bastardizing the game as well.

So I know we have lots to talk about here, playoffs, lottery, et cetera, but I thought

this is a conversation that needed to be had. So I will give it to you, John, here, your first

idea for changing the game, and this is just a brainstorm, you know, we might, some things are not

amazing, perhaps, but we've heard them, we want to just talk through them, your first idea for

changing the game

to potentially reduce injuries i think one of the biggest things is the load and the strain that

our game puts on player's soft tissues i mean soft tissue injuries i think are are where it's at

probably when you're looking at injury reduction uh broken bones are going to happen in a contact sport.

We don't seem to have had rashes of those.

And maybe there are one or two things you could do to lower that probability a little bit.

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