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The NBA is putting its own money into the study of wearable GPS devices, with the likely end goal of outfitting players during games, according to several league sources. The league is funding a study, at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, of products from two leading device-makers: Catapult and STATSports.

Weighing less than an ounce, these devices are worn underneath a player’s jersey. They track basic movement data, including distance traveled and running speed, but the real value comes from the health- and fatigue-related information they spit out. The monitors track the power behind a player’s accelerations and decelerations (i.e., cuts), the force-based impact of jumping and landing, and other data points. Team sports science experts scour the data for any indication a player might be on the verge of injury — or already suffering from one that hasn’t manifested itself in any obvious way.

The devices can show, for instance, that a player gets more oomph pushing off his left leg than his right — evidence of a possible leg injury. They will show when players can’t produce the same level of power, acceleration, and height on cuts and jumps. Those are typical signs of fatigue, but there is near-total consensus among medical experts that fatigued players are more vulnerable to all sorts of injuries — including muscle tears, catastrophic ligament ruptures, and pesky soft-tissue injuries that can nag all season. The Warriors rested Klay Thompson and Stephen Curry last March after data from Catapult devices (used in practices) and SportVU cameras indicated their bodies had reached extreme fatigue levels, as Ken Berger of CBS Sports reported during the Finals.

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Thibs is rolling in his grave in disgust.

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Several GMs and other team higher-ups have privately pushed for in-game use, but they understand the league has to collectively bargain that kind of step with the players’ union. Team executives want to know as much as they can about player health, and also whether guys are going as hard as they can during games.

The union isn’t necessarily opposed to in-game use of wearables. Healthy players enjoy longer careers and earn more money. There is obvious value in anything that decreases a player’s chances of suffering a major injury. However, there is a concern about how teams use the data, and who gets to see it. A player could lose a lot of negotiating leverage if the devices appear to reveal some underlying structural weakness in his body. Players would obviously want to verify the accuracy of such a red flag, and that would mean giving player representatives full access to the data — and the ability to place it in front of their own handpicked experts. Agents for players in a contract year might bristle at minutes restrictions that eat away at a player’s ability to put up numbers.

In addition, the union would want a voice in determining how many teams have access to a player’s in-game wearable data. Is access limited to that player’s team, or would all wearable data from every game end up in a leaguewide database every team could use? What happens if the media finds out about some wearable red alert?

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Speaking at a sponsorship engagement on Wednesday, Kristaps Porzingis said that Phil Jackson’s recent suggestion that he could end up like Shawn Bradley has him “fired up” (Sept. 16).

“Yeah I saw it. I don’t know what to say. I guess that’s what Phil does, gets us to work hard and fired up,” Porzingis said. “That fired me up. I’m like, ‘I’m not Shawn Bradley,’ you know?”

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It seemed like all the stupid kids on 2k loved it tho for some reason.

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