It's a Hard-Knock Life: Game Load, Fatigue, and Injury Risk in the National Basketball Association

Journal of Athletic Training
Melanie Lewis

Abstract

National Basketball Association (NBA) athletes experience a high rate of injuries. Injury prevention requires identifying observable and controllable risk factors. To examine the relationship among game load, fatigue, and injuries in NBA athletes. Cross-sectional study. Game statistics and injury reports over 3 NBA seasons (2012-2015). Data represented 627 players (height = 200.7 ± 8.9 cm, mass = 100.6 ± 12.1 kg, NBA experience = 4.8 ± 4.2 years, pre-NBA experience = 3.2 ± 1.9 years), 73 209 games, and 1663 injury events. An injury event was defined as a player missing or leaving a game due to injury. Logistic multilevel regression was used to predict injuries from time-lagged fatigue and game load with between-subjects differences explained by demographic variables. The odds of injury increased by 2.87% ( P < .001) for each 96 minutes played and decreased by 15.96% ( P < .001) for each day of rest. Increases in game load increased injury odds by 8.23% ( P < .001) for every additional 3 rebounds and 9.87% ( P < .001) for every additional 3 field-goal attempts. When fatigue and game load were held constant, injury odds increased by 3.03% ( P = .04) for each year of NBA experience and 10.59% ( P = .02) for a 6-cm decrease in heig...Continue Reading

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