So in one day, Ja Morant, Giannis, and Herro all go out with serious injuries. Tough day for the NBA.
Can you blame the play-in? Morant and Giannis with a week off, and Miami playing every other day in elimination games. Probably not the best for the body in either situation.
Those injuries had nothing to do with fatigue or the play-in. It's all about blocks vs charges and how the NBA game has evolved with the current rules.
The thing is, when you are used to playing every couple of days and take a week off, your body sometimes isn't the same. Perhaps that fraction of a second Morant and Giannis may have been off, may have put them in a position to get hurt. In the case of Herro, they do play 3 games in 5 nights, but they aren't elimination games and then a near must win game 1 in a playoff series. Those are very intense games that you will play at no other time in a season unless you go down 3-1 or 3-0 in a series (and keep winning).
Maybe there isn't a correlation at all, but that is 3 major injuries all in game 1. I can't remember the last time that happened.
