Weird NBA fact, they have been awarding the MVP award since the 1955-56 season and every single MVP except for 3 are alive right now. Wilt, Moses Malone, and Kobe.
Yeah. There have been older guys pre-shot clock era who have passed, but I imagine most NBA fans would be hard pressed to name anyone from that period (living or dead) outside of Mikan and Cousy. Expanding from MVPs a bit, every deceased shot clock era player (54/55 rookie class on) who managed to get an all league first team nod: Maravich (88), Wilt (99), DJ (07), Moses (15), Hawkins (17), Havlicek (18), and now Bryant. Crazy to think there were only 3 as recently as 5 years ago. The generations spanning Russ to Erving are to basketball what DiMaggio to roughly Brooks Robinson is to baseball. Basketball is on about a 20 year lag from MLB, so more of our greats are still around. Statistics says otherwise, but it would be nice for everyone left to make it through the 75th anniversary celebration in 2021-22.
Amazing what not constantly and violently banging into one another in full body contact and not getting multiple concussions will do to prolong an athlete's life. I mean this for NFL players, boxers, professional wrestlers (if we can categorize them as athletes), etc.
I would think that most posters in BS have played soccer at one time or another. Reading their posts should give you a clue.
There have been studies on children and, from what I have seen, in some youth leagues, heading has been banned.
It has in most place up to a certain age. When they become teenagers they have no sense anyway so it's head away!
We could probably get rid of it at all levels and the game wouldn’t change that much. Play the ball out of the back, less kick and run/targeting, more creative play and finding holes in the final third to finish. Can’t do that with football though. IIRC, the biggest source of concussions in youth/HS level soccer is collisions. At least for tween/teen girls. There’s a really outsized risk of knee injuries for girls at that age too. I think that had something to do with how hip position really places a strain on knees when it comes to lateral movement because they were picking up the same male-female knee injury disparities in basketball as well. It’s been awhile since I looked at the data though.
Yes collisions are the cause for youth soccer concussions. That and jackass kids with jackass coaches and jackass parents "boarding" opponents into indoor walls, will all parties shrieking if penalized, while the victim suffers a concussion. I saw that happen several times over the years.
It is worth keeping in mind, though, that the present understanding of the problem in football is that it isn't really the concussions that do it-- they're bad in and of themselves, but that CTE per se is the product of "accumulated subtraumatic percussive events." That that damage is more cellular than organic. My understanding is that the early returns on studies of heading suggest that it does not appear to do enough of that sort of thing to cause problems from adolescence on. It is the crackin' skulls contesting headers, passing concussion protocols, resuming play, and contesting more headers that seems to be more the source of concern ATM. It is hard to believe though, when you watch Becky plant her feet under a high flyer and imitate a fireplug to drive it 20 yards upfield... that's gotta be a bit of a jolt...
He would have stuck around and shot it out anyway... then maybe taken the plane ride for for gits and shiggles
Ruh-roh. Some Gayle King-Snoop Dogg beef over her asking a question about Kobe's rape case Host of CBS’ This Morning Gayle King has apologized after her questions about Kobe Bryant’s rape case went viral and were criticized by many, including rapper Snoop Dogg. King sat down with retired WNBA star Lisa Leslie on Tuesday to talk about Bryant’s legacy, according to CBS. Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas last month, The Sacramento Bee previously reported. Bringing up Bryant’s 2003 rape charge, King asked, “It’s been said that his legacy is complicated because of a sexual assault charge which was dismissed in 2003, 2004. Is it complicated for you, as a woman, as a WNBA player?” https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article240035398.html
I agree, but I’m also uncomfortable with people being chastised for bringing up Kobe’s Colorado adventure.
Kobe forgot to look in the mirror before his evening began, looks like. Snoop isn't going to do anything to Gayle King except maybe help cut into her popularity a bit. He's got far too much going on financially to risk it all on her.