[Aubin] Wemby’s thoughts on the Spurs medical staff: “…But I also know the Spurs medical staff will do their job regardless of that. That’s what we expect from them, and they’re very good at staying objective.”

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1. We give the medical staff a lot of crap but to be honest them being so strict might save Wemby from himself several times throughout his career. Dude is a basketball fanatic and would seem to try and play through any and every kind of injury.

2. The 65 game rule for awards feels intuitively good at first, but the more you think about it, the more dumb and needless it reveals itself to be.

   They should just allow the voters to account for number of games played and factor that into their voting on their own, because they absolutely would.

3. Out for multiple weeks

4. It’s easy being the Spurs medical staff.  Just take every minor injury and hold a player out for a few months and put them on a minutes restriction when they’re back and people will defend you as being geniuses 

5. I like the rule but the numbers can be massaged

6. The game requirement does make sense, regardless of how unfortunate it’s been for Wemby. If it becomes a consistent trend that multiple elite players are not meeting this threshold each year due to injury, something that wasn’t so consistent an issue in the past, that tells me the problem isn’t the minimum games requirement but simply the state of the game these days.

   The combination of play style, youth mileage, and more could certainly make players more injury prone these days, but the solution to that isn’t to just say they can get the most prestigious awards in the nba when they miss significant time. The only solutions I really think make sense are to shorten the season, lower the minimum games a few down to about 60, or to throw a bone and maybe have a lower threshold specifically for 3rd team All-NBA, but you’d also likely need to then restrict the contract incentives associated with 3rd team as well.