Aaron Gordon asked the NBA to change its dangerous playoff planning

It is funny how much time we spend on the regular season of the NBA and analyze everything on the basis of this sample size if the playoffs often hang more than anything else on the healthiest remaining teams.

While we are determined for the final of the Western Conference as well as for the final of the Eastern Conference in the next two weeks, there is a fair argument that the four squads are left – the Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves, Indiana Pacers and New York Knick – are at least partially standing because their main stations remain and healthy. These four teams with almost 100 kilometers on their roster have particularly happy in this regard because they are shortly before the start of two dangerous, respective schedules with the planned games for Every second night.

Yes, even if you have to travel between cities. Huh? Why?

After a post -season in which differentiators such as the Boston Celtics 'Jayson Tatum, Steph Curry the Golden State Warriors, and the Denver Nuggets' Aaron Gordon, of which everyone contributed to their respective teams. This or the league demands for a de facto hunger for the title just because it wants a playoff game every other evening for marketing purposes instead of prioritizing the health of your best players and a better, cleaner product in the greatest games of the entire year.

Make it sense. Because it doesn't look.

This is an urgent discussion that Gordon himself asked the league to change after playing a game 7 against thunder with a class 2 upper limit and observing how other players such as Tatum and Curry occurred.

To be honest, Gordon makes a really convincing case:

Of course, Gordon's position comes from a place of frustration about what the nuggets had to endure even during their playoff run from 2025. In the course of around five weeks, Denver only received three resting rods that were more than one day. At a time when they won a crucial game 6 against thunder to send it to game 7, the nuggets had played nine games in 17 days.

(Note: The Nuggets and Donner even played an unfathomable game with less than 36 hours of break. It is a miracle that nobody was injured there.)

At the end, the nuggets did not run at the end, and, like Gordon, one of their lynchpins, they saw a soft tissue injury to the worst case.

Perhaps teams like the Nuggets will feel this less if they didn't have to play seven games in back-to-back series. Maybe you will feel it less if you had more depth on a first -class squad. These are problems that have solved deeper thunder, timber wolves, pacer and kinks. Nevertheless, it still seems very insecure and responsible to not set up a long break in the general schedule of an NBA playoff series, regardless of whether it is seven games or not.

Because this whole fiasco is larger than the nuggets, Celtics or Warriors. At a certain point in time, even if you have some of the best athletes in the world in your league, you are still human. And they ask too much people who have normal people like the rest of us with the same physical restrictions.

For those who might say that today's NBA players are actually soft because I cannot fulfill this tribute, let me say that bluntly: You don't know what you are talking about.

The athletes in today's league are better than ever. They jump higher. They run faster. They are stronger. It's just true. All of this does not come without price if you have already played professional basketball for half of the calendar year when the playoffs roll around. With the spread of the 3-point shot league, each is expected to cover more soil per game than at any time in the history of the NBA. There is just so much more cutting, stopping and starting and changing positions across the entire dish than ever before.

It is not the same game that I can imagine that many of them have watched earlier. Heck, it's not even near the same game as 10 years ago. There is a good reason why many players don't cross all the time in a regular season, which sometimes feels endless.

You really don't have the energy to do this.

Gordon's point is outstanding and convincing for every NBA player. It is a real problem that must be addressed by the right thing. I hope it does not fall on deaf ears to a league and a commissioner in Adam Silver, who looks like it is constantly trying to fix unimportant “problems” that have nothing to do with the protection and prioritization of the game or its players. Incidentally, the NBA production of Bergen by Mole Hills has probably contributed to this specific playoff planning problem, since the relatively new (and senseless) in-season and play-in tournaments have effectively added two weeks into the season.

You know, two weeks that can be spread out instead over the post -season plan of every playoff team. Hmm. These days could have been useful, I think!

If the NBA actually takes care of its players, she has to hear Aaron Gordon. Point. It would be completely unacceptable for a league that really has to look at in the mirror, not to remedy this sufficiently.

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