NBA Players Must Deal with the Fright of Flight

Posted: 18th December 2009 by nathan spicer in NBA
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Athletes fly a lot.á A very lot.á So much so that they could probably befriend a few birds. Not all sports are created equal in this regard. NFL players typically fly once a week if itÆs a road game, and then one return flight home. If Goodell succeeds, his players would have to fly once more a year (not a huge deal, but the injuries possibly incurred thereafter present real problems), but they might have to fly to London, which is a bigger deal, because jet lag will become an even larger factor (a phenomenon IÆll mention a bit later). Baseball players travel a lot, sure; they play 162 games, after all. But those games are divided into series, which keeps players in a given city for at least a few days while the series progresses. But NBA players fall into ...

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