Jayson Tatum's injury is one of many who have made the NBA playoffs from 2025 brutal

The incidence of significant and sometimes catastrophic injuries for Star players has become one of the stories of this year's NBA playoffs. The Boston Celtics, who play the New York Knicks in game 6 on Friday evening in Madison Square Garden, lost the power striker against an Achilles tear in game 4 on Monday. Damian Lillard, the starting monitor of Milwaukee Bucks, broke his Achilles tendons in game 4 of the Bucks outcome of the Bucks-Runde to the Indiana Piecern-Piecers-Piecers outdoor guards. Since such injuries are so serious and heal slowly, both stars will probably be released for most NBA season of the next year.

Warriors trainer Steve Kerr believes that the loss of his team is due to one thing: Curry's thigh.

The Celtics claw back into the Knicks series and avoid excretion on Wednesday without Tatum. The Golden State Warriors won the game that Stephon Curry injured with a thigh injury last week, but Warriors coach Steve Kerr said after his team had been eliminated 4-1 by the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday evening that he believes that the loss of his team was due to one thing: Curry's Hiesgrill.

Kerr said reporters that the Warriors, who have won four championships since 2015, could have won another, if not for the burden on the first class, which his point Guard suffered in game with the Minnesota Timberwolves. Maybe he's right; Curry, the most productive 3-point shooter in NBA history, is fatal in the off-season. There is no doubt that he seriously injured the chances of the warriors, even if stars like Jimmy Butler and Draymond Green are still healthy.

The flood of injuries at the end of the season against Megastar players is painful for them, but also for the business in the NBA. The league did not market his playoff matchups as much as games between teams, but as a duels between individual players. In the Celtics-Knicks series, for example, a fight between Tatum and Knicks star Jalen Brunson was promised, and nobody was disappointed. In his five games against the Celtics, Brunson scored an average of 27 points, and in some cases thanks to the 42 points he scored in the game when his Achilles had torn down, had an average of 25 points in this series.

With several beloved players who fail during this year's title hunt, frustrated fans will probably look for a connection between all of them. My money is more than a few fans who blame load management – or lack that.

With several beloved players who fail during this year's title hunt, frustrated fans will probably look for a connection between all of them.

Load Management is the careful curation of the minutes that a player spends on the pitch throughout the regular season of the NBA in order to believe that a player can help for certain regular seasonal games to keep him healthy if he is really needed. It was a flashpoint among fans and media, especially because the fans hate the opportunity to be robbed of watching their favorite players, especially in visitor teams. Imagine that you are, for example, a Giannis -Anantetocounmpo fan in Denver, who pays a few hundred dollars on tickets to see how the bucks record the nuggets and then arrive in the arena to see a healthy antetocounmpo on the bench.

Complaints had achieved such a fever place that the NBA implemented a new “player participation policy” before the 2023-2024 season began. These rules limit healthy nights for all-stars (or those who were all-NBA players all-NBA players in the last three seasons) have completely healthy nights for these players during the league tournament in the inside season that encourage games for home games and not on road rides. Depending on the frequency of violations, the teams are fines from $ 100,000 to 1 million.

It was a pretty stiff smackdown and a guideline, the fans who loathe healthy scratches, applauded. The question, especially at this moment, may come back to bite the league by overriding some of his marquee names outside of time at the worst case?

The answer is: “Probably not.”

In the first year of the new load management restrictions, the league published a study that has not proven or refuted a correlation between load management and the likelihood of injury based on the data injury data of a decade.

As far as the NBA can assess, Curry, Tatum, Lillard and every other player has the same chance of a bad injury. As if he wanted to prove the point, Tatum said that he does not like load management for fans sake. In his eight -year career, he has never started less than 64 games and he has an average of 34.5 minutes of play a night. Despite this heavy load, Monday was his first injury at the end of the end of the season.

Those who prone to nostalgia attacks should acknowledge that serious injuries routinely overthrew the playoff hopes.

Those who prone to nostalgia attacks should acknowledge that serious injuries routinely overthrew the playoff hopes. Magic Johnson's climb for the Lakers began when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then the greatest star of the Lakers, waxed his ankle and could not play him in game 6 of the 1980 NBA final. (The rookie Magic filled with 42 points, 15 rebounds and 7 templates.) The striker of Lakers James Worthy broke out in game 6 of the 1983 final, a series that lost his team against the Philadelphia 76ers. In recent years, Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson and Derrick Rose have been injuries during the heat of the Playoffs.

Lilliard and Tatum have long relaxation in front of them, and their teams and fans have a bag of what and have a lot of time to ask: “Why?” The only solid answer is probably the least satisfactory: injuries to sport can be as random as it is brutal, and trying to find a systematic explanation for you is pointless.

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