Michael Jordan (🐐) shares his thoughts on load management.

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He's always been consistent about this if you have researched it, but I knew certain individuals would try to dismiss this as a lie. That's the new thing tbe internet does now though. Particularly Gen Z and grown men who act like members of Gen Z.

I believe the best example of this was his Wizard years particularly year 1 when he collided with Etan Thomas and hurt his knee. He tried to play through it. Then got that surgery amd rushed back and tried to continue playing through it. Wasn't even concerned about numbers obviously because he didn't play heavy minutes and didn't start after the surgery.
True. Salute to the GOAT for always playing through injuries. Played hard every night, and not a torn ACL or torn Achilles in sight. GOAT:blessed:
 

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The NBA is legalized bank robbery for a lot of these dudes

PG tried to say it’s the FO that stops the players from playing but I’m calling BS on that

If Kawhi, Bron and some of these other stars who are seasoned in the league want to play, no chance a GM or Owner is telling them no unless there’s major injury risk

I’m not gonna question their love for the game because it takes a lot to make it to the league but I definitely think these players are more enamored with money + branding than the game
 

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He's always been consistent about this if you have researched it, but I knew certain individuals would try to dismiss this as a lie. That's the new thing tbe internet does now though. Particularly Gen Z and grown men who act like members of Gen Z.

I believe the best example of this was his Wizard years particularly year 1 when he collided with Etan Thomas and hurt his knee. He tried to play through it. Then got that surgery amd rushed back and tried to continue playing through it. Wasn't even concerned about numbers obviously because he didn't play heavy minutes and didn't start after the surgery.
Yup. He even played 82 games the following year at 40 years old with no cartilage in that knee.

It’s a damn shame he ran into Etan Thomas in 2001-2002 season. The Wizards were up to 5th in the East before that and MJ was averaging 25 PPG.
 

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And these up in here and even on tv/radio always talking about athletes today are better conditioned and have better treatment to get them right back on the court


But these same nikkas taking a rest day because they don’t want to play back to back even though they got the next 2 nights off after

And now i heard and I forgot was it a nba person or announcer say yeah the league need to go down to 72 games and the players will be really fresh to give it all it got… FOH…
 

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Yup. He even played 82 games the following year at 40 years old with no cartilage in that knee.

It’s a damn shame he ran into Etan Thomas in 2001-2002 season. The Wizards were up to 5th in the East before that and MJ was averaging 25 PPG.
He was averaging 25-6-6 before the injury and 30-6-6 in his last 10 games leading up to the injury
 

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When my goat speaks, I listen.


No one is built like Mike anymore. He actually cared about the fans who paid hard earned money to come watch him play. Today’s players do not give a damn about the father who had to bust his ass for a ticket to take his son to the game.
Then that father needs to save his money. No one is forcing him to go to a game.
 

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He’s been saying tbis for the last 30 years tho…

I remember watching VHS tapes as a kid and Mike was talking about how important it was for him to play every game because he understood that that might be a kid one chance to see him play live.

It's literally why Kobe did the same thing, and we know how they love to laugh at Kobe for copying Mike, but now this one ain't true :laff:
 
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