During a Wednesday press conference, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said he and the league plan to look into “a trend of star players not participating in a full complement of games.”
Silver brought up this issue when asked about the Ben Simmons and the 76ers ongoing arbitration. He said he would rather focus on the trend above of various star players missing big chunks of games.
“I’m not standing here saying I have a great solution,” Silver said, via ESPN. “Part of the issue is injuries. One of the things we have focused on at the league office and we’re spending — we had begun to spend a lot of time on pre-pandemic — are there things we can do in terms of sharing information, resources around the league to improve best practices, rehabilitation?