NBA INJURIES HAVE long seemed random. But the information age is changing that. The bleeding edge: assessing players to determine what future injuries they are at risk for, and then working to prevent those.
It's already happening. In late October, Myles Turner checked his email and found something interesting. The Indiana Pacers rookie center had just received a full body report detailing his biomechanics and associated injury risk. It told him, among other information, that his hip strength ranked below the norm of his basketball peers, which could expose him to an elevated injury risk to his lower limbs.