Basketball IS 1000x more hard on your joints- Ankles -knees and hips- more than any other major pro sport. Maybe MMA is close - I cant think of anything else. MMA risks - all joints....for knee tho - Jumping randomly in a split second without a programmed route and action is dangerous as all hell _ takes an incredible amount of ability and agility and riskFair about impact on your joint, but stopping, starting, turning on skates isn't hard on ligaments and tendons? Especially ankles and knees? The weird angles it creates?
That's not even bringing in the physicality of the sport. Hockey plays back to backs just like NBA and you don't see dudes 'load managing' except goalies.
I mean the league has stepped in saying you need to play X amount of games to win awards it's gotten so bad with guys taking nights off.
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