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Learn more at vertexinck.com. Hello and welcome to the Athletic NBA show.

I'm Dave Dufour here with my guest, Jeff Stutz.

You may know him as InStreet Close on Twitter or from

instreetclose.com. He is a sports injury expert. He's a certified athletic trainer. My buddy,

Jeff, how's it going, man? I'm doing well, man. I'm so happy to see your face. I'm ready to do this.

It's been far too long. It's way too long. We say this with everybody.

You know, you popped in my head because this new player arrest policy has been the talk of the week.

Obviously, we all have sort of made fun of it here in the media.

And I think that probably internally some of the teams have made fun of it because,

man, it certainly seems a bit far-fetched to expect these guys to play 82 games after the way

things have gone and with the prevalence of sports science and the understanding of the

importance of rest and mitigating injury risk. And in particular,

when you've got those back to backs and four games and, you know, five nights, which I think

doesn't exist anymore. But when you're when you're playing four games in a week, guys,

you know, they need to rest a little bit. So I thought, why not ask the injury expert his opinion?

So, Jeff, how do you feel about the new player rest policy? Is this something that's that's

going to work for the league as far as getting guys to be able to play more? Well, that's the hope,

right? The whole plan is to have the best players playing basketball. And that's what we want. We all want that. As fans of the game, we want the best players out there. I think when decisions like this are being made, you kind of think we try to try to put on just a graph or a chart, I think it needs to be more on like a spider chart or one of those radar maps, if you know what I'm talking about, where it's probably things being pulled in four different ways in this case. And we want to try to be centralized. But in the four corners, you've got the league, you've got the teams, you've got the players, and you've got the fans. And all four of those things are focused on NBA basketball.

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