News & Blogs
Knicks 114, Hawks 98: “KAT was fantastic” – Posting & Toasting
Hawks vs. Knicks (Apr 28, 2026) Pregame – ESPN
Knicks Bulletin: ‘I don’t think it’s anything encouraging about it’ – Posting & Toasting
Mikal Bridges, Jalen Johnson and more Knicks-Hawks questions to ponder – The New York Times
Knicks-Hawks Game 4 Reaction and Analysis | The Putback with Ian Begley – Begley Putback
Kendrick Perkins Goes OFF On Knicks Fans & Stephen A Smith | Worst Take – Knicks Fan TV
Pod Strickland Episode 589: All Even – The Strickland
Betting Knicks vs. Hawks, Game 5 | KFS Weekly Wagers | Knicks Film School – Knicks Film School
YT News
83 replies on “Knicks Morning News (2026.04.28)”
G’mornin’, all. The Knicks wouldn’t dare lose on my 62nd birthday, right? Right???
I really don’t think they will. I say we finish this in 6.
Knicks in 6 (please, for my sanity)
The Pistons are a fraud.
Happy birthday, Doogie.
Thanks, Alan. 🙂
Want to change my screen name to “Knicks in ’26,” but I really truly sincerely have no idea how to do that.
Happy B’Day, Doogie! 🥳
*and now you can say that you’ve received messages from Portugal on your birthday. CLASS! 😉 😀
Knicks in 26? It’s a best of 7 series! 😀
If you click where it says “Howdy, Knicks 2025”, you will be sent to the profile form, where um have the chance to change the nickname.
Thank you, cyber!!!
When I go to “Edit your profile,” I get “Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page,” which I can read only after translating from Amharic. LOL
The site isn’t saying “howdy” to me anymore. Although I might remember having seen it in the past, I have no idea where it is now.
Not a huge deal if I can’t change it. For me, it’s Knicks 2025 2026 2027 2028 ad infinitum, since 1978.
Happy Birthday Doogie
Doogie’s a Taurus! It all makes sense now. Cheers, Doog.
Does it, though? LOL Thanks, KFNIN and ess!
Happy Birthday from a fellow child of April!
KB just announced that Knicks 2025 is the unanimous winner of the Most Improved Poster award. Congrats, birthday boy!
I was also going to laud Doogie for finally “putting it all together.” Definitely think he’s earned MIP.
happy bday doogie…don’t party too hard…at least until after the W tonight.
There’s a dropdown menu near the top of that page, underneath some color bars and checkbox; that’s the language menu where you can change your default back to English.
Happy Birthday, Doogie. Are you the KAT of the board? Finally putting it all together and taking Knickerblogger to new, unheard of heights, previously unimaginable?
Thanks much, Z, pepper, and walker……. And thanks to all for the kind words. Will take a look back at the profile stuff when I have more time.
Just came across this from The Athletic, in the meantime:
“In the NBA, Sam Amick’s latest notebook contained a report about the NBA finalizing a new lottery process. General managers will officially discuss the resolution today, but a front-runner has emerged to fix the tanking problem this league has faced for years: expanding the draft lottery to 18 teams and giving all bottom-10 teams the same chance to land the No. 1 pick.”
Is it just me, or does that actually seem worse than the current system? I think all it would do would be to slightly reduce tanking by the real dregs of the league, but it really doesn’t solve the overarching issue at all.
It only FEELS like 26
I think flattening the odds is good. They weighted it too much towards the truly shitty teams but now it really encourages teams to just be as bad as possible. I guess this only encourages teams to be “sort of bad” lol, which is maybe better? I also think giving some of the lower seeded playoff teams a chance to get a higher pick in the lottery is good as it won’t punish teams that are good enough to make the playoffs but not good enough to really compete.
I just don’t know with a draft if you can ever full get rid of some teams trying to game the system in some way to get a higher pick. Having some of that built in is probably fine but when half the league is doing it, it’s a problem.
Well, four 7-game series would require 28 games to win a championship, so 26 games would be pretty awful!
But it’s been done before:
Single Postseason Record: The 2008 Boston Celtics played 26 games en route to winning the NBA Championship, having gone to 7 games in the first round, 7 in the second, 6 in the Conference Finals, and 6 in the NBA Finals.
Happy Birthday, Doogie.
In terms of the Pistons, if in fact they’re a fraud — and they very well may be — a fraud that wins 60 games would be yet another black mark on the already-reeling association regular season.
Obviously the Board of Governors and Adam Silver peruse KB for wisdom:
And for some additional measures to promote parity (which is the main reason for the “ordered” draft in the first place)
We’ve already seen a team tank to miss the playoffs. Getting into the bottom ten vs getting into the play-in round sounds like a no-brainer to teams that own their own picks. But that has always been the real issue: protecting protected pick. Anything that doesn’t solve that isn’t solving anything.
Yes, I agree Donnie, and wrote this prior to seeing your post:
I also think that making at least the play-in should be incentivised. In the current proposal, the 2.5% vs. 8% doesn’t seem like much, but in a draft like this one where any of the top 5 could be a franchise-changing player, the odds of landing a top-5 pick would compound out to 40% for the bottom 10 vs. only 12.5% for play-in teams. That could be enough reason for a savvy GM to prefer that his team miss the play-in.
I would correct for that by giving play-in teams some non-lottery bonus, like a bonus 2nd round pick ahead of the lottery teams, or an additional salary cap exception. There is probably some actuarial equivalent between the reduced lottery odds for being in the play-in and those bonuses. Second round picks seem to be better assets than they have been in the past, i.e. the draft seems deeper to me, but maybe that’s just me!
I would also like to see the NBA significantly restrict the trading of picks or eliminate it altogether. Make it so that neither a future pick nor a drafted player can be traded until at least one year after the date the player is drafted. All trades would have to involve rostered players. If parity is the goal, having teams that both suck and have few picks (swaps can circumvent the Stepien rule) is counterproductive.
Thanks, E.
*I should add that I doubt that the incentives for play-in teams would encourage teams to drop from 6 down to 7 but who knows?
In a year like this one when there were just so many teams bunched up in 5-10, trying to even make dropping down from 6 to 7 work would be challenging to execute if a team wanted to try it.
yay, it is your birthday doogie…
hope you get to do as you please, now that you have officially unlocked the old folks’ government cheese…
do you do a cake and candles, or some other variation for celebrating…
So long as there is any “order based on record” aspect to anything, there will likely be isolated incidences of tanking. For example, maybe Leon/Brown might have agreed to tank in order to avoid the prospect of playing Boston in Round 2. But those sorts of things shouldn’t be a priority for policy-makers. To a lesser degree, same with teams purposely missing the play-in, or dropping down into it. If you are winning enough games to even have that be a consideration, you are only a small part of the problem, and it would be so glaring that the commissioner might be justified in leveeing heavy sanctions, such as eliminating your team from the lottery altogether.
It’s easy, Doogie.
Just go to the home screen, log in like you normally would, and then correct everyone’s grammar for like three months straight. When you set up your next account, type “Knicks in ’26” under username, and you’re all set.
Happy birthday!
I’d let everyone in the lottery and then have tiers where you’re capped. IOW, the bottom tier, let’s say, 25-30 can only move up to, again let’s say, 15 in the lottery. Move that up the chain and that’s your lottery.
I’d also prohibit pick protection. It should never have been allowed.
Z-Man’s mixing of cap relief with lottery odds for the truly worst teams is an inspired one, and I’d work that in too.
Ultimately this is a sports culture problem because there are way too many fans who sit around dreaming of future states for their teams in lieu of paying attention to the present. At its worse, you get things like the Hinkie cult or the baseball geek GMs like Stearns or Scott Harris who prefer things like “not signing a bad contract” or “not ranking below 10 in the Baseball America farm system rankings” to “actually winning games.”
The geek GM will also always want to make moves that shows how “clever” they are, instead of just getting good players.(*) So you’ll have a Stearns who won’t sign a 30 year old first baseman who has proven he can hit but then will replace him with a multiyear contract for a non-hitter who has never even played first base.
(*) Which not coincidentally helps ensure that they get credit.
Thanks, geo and hubie (I think 🙂 ).
Yeah, Z-Man, I agree on the no trading draft picks. I’ve hated the pick protections ever since the real Donnie Walsh had to give up the Gordon Hayward pick seven years after Isiah traded it for Marbury. That was worse than not protecting the Curry picks at all. It really underscored the downside of protections, and how it punishes fan bases long after fallible regimes are gone. And THEN the tanking started around the league, it’s such an obvious fix. But I like your plan of not trading picks at all. Drastic measures, sure, but these are drastic times for the NBA.
I also think Hubert’s idea of tying draft position to a three year window does a lot more to fix things than just flattening odds (again). And it eliminates teams punting when their stars tear their achilles.
This can be fixed! All is not lost!
But given how far out some pics have been traded at this point, some with protections, how do you deal with that going forward? Are the protected picks unprotected? Are the current protections grandfathered in and no future protections are allowed? I’m just trying to imagine the uproar if a team traded a protected pick for some journeyman, and suddenly it’s unprotected and it winds up in the lottery.
Yeah the cap plus the lottery incentivizes teams to trade/cut decent players who are good but no good enough to be “franchise players.”
My Bulls friend is so sad about Ayo, saying this is what the bulls always do. They get a good player and then get rid of them before they have to pay them their second contract.
No real way around grandfathering them, although it goes in the other direction, too — a bad team trades a top 10 protected pick (think of the Wiz pick the Knicks had) thinking they won’t wind up in that “middle zone” because they’ll make sure they’re too bad, the lottery rules change, and they wind up having to convey it.
Alan, obviously all existing obligations should hold. It’s unconstitutional to pass ex post facto laws for a reason.
I think we need to allow trading picks because that’s a major lever in team building that adds strategic depth and the ability to trade present for future value. However, there’s good reason to limit the ability for bad managers to bind their successors unreasonably far into the future.
In the 90’s the max contract length was 7 years, which led to a lot of huge garbage contracts on the books when players got injured and lost all their value (see Houston, Allan). So they reduced the max contract to 4 years or 5 with an incumbent team, which seems to have worked well.
This feels like the kind of change that is needed with picks — maybe we can only trade picks 4 years out. Combined with the Stepien rule, that should blunt the ability for the Isiahs of the world to gut a team’s future. Too bad this wasn’t in place before we traded the next decade for Mr. Average.
Flattening odds is the bad idea that got us here.
Everything was fine until the league overreacted to Sam Hinkie. The league used to have 2-3 bad teams a year.
Then the flattened the odds to discourage another Process, and that’s what created this mess.
Without getting into the quality of the reaction, you can’t have massive swaths of your league’s fanbase and culture — including wide swaths of literate commentary — wedded to the idea that they should spend their fandom time constantly engaged in silly Mom’s Basement fantasies of a “perfect” and “perfectly crafted” team in T + 4 while all the while in the real world of T in which the rest of the culture exists, the team is losing 65 games year in and year out. (*)
That’s problem number one. Problem number two is the chronic and affirmative effort to lose and what it does to proper athletic competition. Problem number three is that problem number one engenders copycats in the management suites.
(*) That’s what NBA 2K is for, not NBA ACTUAL.
Punish owners in their pocket books. Bottom 3 teams will get top 3 draft picks but they have to “donate” 1% of their team equity to the local City they play in. Coaches and players 20% of their annual salary. This is the best alternative to relegation.
Owners will be in the lockeroom and at every game come February and March. Player only meetings and film study will be fire when they hold each other accountable cause a slacker not running back in costing them money.
Any other ideas that will never, ever get past the NBAPA in a thousand years?
The Stepien Rule is a major culprit in all of this, talk about unintended consequences.
They can, as long as it’s collectively bargained.
The league can look at the number of clicks it gets on peacock and try to feel good about itself, but the fact is the product is way down from years past and its success is not sustainable long-term given the current conditions. They know they have to fix stuff and fix it well.
lol…no, thats the only one I had.
This makes every regular season game hyper competitive and sets the table where no one really wants a top 3 draft pick.
Now we have 10 teams like that instead of 1. But it’s T+2 instead.
Meanwhile we ignore the fact that three other American sports leagues tie draft position to record without this problem.
It’s not the odds, it’s the front office culture.
And you know how the league addresses culture problems, right? With suspensions and fines.
I don’t think you can compare the league’s though. I won’t speak for Hockey but tanking in the NFL to get a top pick isn’t going to magically make your team good. Because one player, even if it’s an all NFL running back or QB, etc…isn’t going to magically turn your team around because you have 22 starting positions that have to be filled and each position only plays half of the game.
It’s not quite the same in baseball but even if you draft the next Greg Maddox, that pitcher is starting every 4th game? If you draft a 400 hitter who hits 60 home runs a year and is all defense at their position, that guy is still only 1 of 9 on the field and only bats 3 to 4 times a game.
Drafting a young superstar in basketball is just a totally different beast. You can literally turn around a franchise over night because you have only 5 starters and the starters play 35 to 40 minutes a night, both sides of the ball. The impact one player can have on basketball is much bigger than what one player can have in football or baseball.
To circle back to the provocative question raised by Brian Cronin as to why no one cares about things like Starks’s Dunk anymore — i.e. really cool moments or wins that didn’t happen in a season with a championship and therefore “didn’t really matter.” With the idea that “Starks’s Dunk” can be a shorthand term for all such really cool moments …
Here’s who doesn’t care about Starks’s Dunk:
1. Gamblers, degenerate or otherwise, don’t care about Starks’s Dunk.
2. Cult of Hinkie members don’t care about Starks’s Dunk.
3. People who like all the new “team colors” featured in the NBA’s new uniforms don’t care about Starks’s Dunk.
4. People who have gravitated to the NBA because they want to see what this “sports” thing that shows up on their socials feeds is all about, and whose feeds seem to indicate that the NBA is the most “socially conscious” of the major sports leagues, don’t care about Starks’ Dunk.
Shrink the Game.
I feel like if we just talk about it a little more, we’ll get all this lack of competitiveness in the nba generated and related to an incoming employees thing all sorted, very shortly…any moment now, it’s about to happen…
it’s just right around the corner from it all being worked out just perfectly…
yeah, don’t hold your breathe…better maybe to just hold your noise and look away…look away…
okay, slightly optimistic about our chances tonight…i find that troublesome…
one consolation for today’s game – it’s doogie’s birthday, any pressure for securing the win tonight is a billion percent on doogie’s shoulders…
no pressure, just make sure to come on and come through for us…
not like it’ll be remembered forever if any letdowns occur…
let there be no letdowns please, we like that less…
It’s a shame relegation is not an option.
I’ll take it… even 28 would be great! 😉
Not for nothing but… aren’t we in the golden age of parity? The last 7 champions have all been different teams.
The 2020s so far have had 6 different champions and we’re only about halfway through.
2010s: 6 champions for the whole decade
2000s: 5 champions
1990s: 4 champions
1980s: 4 champions
Do we really want to go back to the bad old days when the Spurs and Lakers won ever other championship?
The US Supreme Court’s decision granting baseball an an antitrust exemption over 100 years ago ruined any chance of it happening here. Stopped forever the idea that you could start a club from scratch in any location you wanted, and have entry to the system of other clubs.
College sports here developed differently and those are much closer to the European model.
I think this is the irony, though. The goal of parity has, largely, worked. Just look at this first round! The NBA has done a good job on that and I think it makes the game better, overall. And today, if you’re a good team (clear 50 wins) you can go into the playoffs hoping you might win a title or at least get to the finals and it’s not super unrealistic to think that! And you don’t necessarily need a generational talent to do that, though it helps.
But the flip side is the teams outside…the bottom third…are all tanking worse than ever. So while the playoffs are more exciting and more franchises can hope for a championship now, a much larger chunk of the regular season games are meaningless and a good chunk of the teams are truly awful.
Yeah getting Eli Manning didn’t do anything for the giants. His brother didn’t change the Colts much either.
Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, and Drake Maye didn’t make the Bears, Commanders, and Pats good overnight.
Cincinnati is the same team they were before Joe Burrow.
I could go on all day. If the giants had tanked their last game they would have been able to trade #1 for a franchise-altering haul. Foolish or not, they scoffed at the idea and celebrated the win.
The difference is front office culture.
Re draft:
After the season ends, the bottom eight teams should play a March Madness style bracket/tournament: “For the Draft.”
Tournament champ drafts #1; runner-up drafts #2. Total points scored sorts the other teams in descending order. Kind of like the total goals tie breaker at the World Cup.
Sure, teams would still “tank” during the season to get into this bottom eight, but they might not slash their rosters too much because they still have something to play for. Teams holding healthy players out during the season remains the same no-no it is now with penalties. Maybe you lose your spot in the tournament.
A fun twist is that (presumably bad) players on the bottom eight teams would thus be competing to add the next Wemby to their own squad, perhaps helping their own chance to become a champion one day. And the top college prospects would, of course, attend the televised games in their bad suits, quietly hoping the “right” team wins the right to draft them, etc.
As for teams that trade their own pick, the protection could be that they get it back if they win the tournament (or finish at some specified ranking — 2,3,4 whatev). This seems way better than lottery protected now which incentivizes you to suck. Rather, you need to play well — in this tournament — to keep your pick. Opposing GM’s would consider such a future likelihood in any pick’s potential value, etc.
Micro dramas would be amusing even among the losing teams throughout the tournament. Because picks 3 – 8 are sorted by points, we watch down to the buzzer to see if, say, the Wizards score enough baskets in their loss to finish 6th instead of 7th and either hold onto a pick or maybe knock a rival out from keeping their pick. Thus all the games have some value, even all the possessions.
Of course — Never happen — but it would be way more fun and relevant than the in-season tournament now, or the (yawn) all star game.
Happy Birthday, Doogie.
I know you didn’t speak to hockey so I will… top picks Sydney Crosby, Alex Ovechkin, Steven Stamkos, Nathan McKinnon, Auston Matthews, Jack Hughes, Connor McDavid, Connor Bedard… many of these guys impacted their teams as much as LeBron James and Victor Wembayama.
Picking at the top of the draft is an enormous advantage. But the average NHL GM wouldn’t suggest tanking bc the average NHL player would punch him senseless for doing so.
It’s the culture. It’s nothing but the culture… and Silver’s blind eye.
Also worth noting these proposed changes would actually make the Mikal Bridges trade even worse.
Excited for tonight’s game. Hopefully we are ready to go from the tip. Also avoiding foul trouble will be important. Another key point will be getting some points from our bench. Jose hit a couple 3’s last game, maybe that will get him on a streak.
I’m interested to see what kinds of adjustments the Hawks make to the Knicks successfully running the offense through Towns more often in the last game. They’ll certainly take away some of the OG cuts. Then we’ll see if Brunson can adjust or whether he goes back to hero ball.
4 keys.
1. Are the Knicks moving the ball and themselves effectively or is everyone standing around watching Brunson dribble.
2. Are we guarding the 3 point line effectively
3. If we are moving well, are we hitting open 3s.
4. Even if we are guarding the 3 point line well, is Atlanta hitting tough 3s and 3s late in the clock under pressure.
IMO, there’s going to be a lot of statistical noise in the result tonight. I’m expecting a tough game unless all the 3 point noise favors us.
The changes to the draft process being tossed around look OK to me. I’m not sure about using multiple years. That may create some unforeseen issues even though I understand the reasoning. The one thing I would have hated was making it too complex. With complexity often comes unintended and unforeseen consequences that the smartest guys in the room take advantage of.
It’s a simple problem that people have been making too complex.
You just have to change the incentives. There were a lot of simple ways to do that both in terms of odds and money.
Happy Birthday “Knicks 2025”.
I thought 62 was a pretty good age. By 62 you’ve already made a lot of mistakes and experienced one hell of a lot of things. Hopfully you are still in good enough shape to use that knowledge and experience in a productive way and the best is ahead for you…starting with a Knicks win tonight. 😉
Thanks much, KBA and Strat.
The only thing that’s bizarre to me is that the league has struggled so much in addressing the tanking problem. The odds-flattening was a half-measure that probably worked in a very limited sense while opening to door to the abuses that occurred this year. Silver was fishing for ways to ensure that top picks had the best chance to wind up with true bottom-feeders and instead made it more likely that a) even more teams would tank and b) the top picks would not go to the worst teams.
Half-measures rarely pan out. At the end of the day, there isn’t much daylight on paper between the 18-win Pacers and the 32-win Bucks. The teams taking a gap year due to injury such as the Pacers, or going back, the Robinson-less Spurs, or more recently, the injury-decimated Warriors, will surely tank hardest and ugliest in that year. And if those teams get lucky, like the Spurs did with Duncan, it was all worth it. If they don’t, like the Warriors didn’t in picking Wiseman, they will still have an excellent team when the injuries heal. The Pacers will be good next year no matter what.
I till ope that the day comes when the salary cap becomes the main “distribution of talent” mechanism. The aprons have definitely been impactful in that regard, yet a smart team like the Celtics managed to find a way to unload contracts and then find and develop young cheap talent around a core of two max players. They were able to do so in large part because they didn’t squander assets trading for shiny objects. They found value in the late-first/early-second rounds and on the waiver wire and second-hand bin. They “won transactions,” which I continue to agree with Strat is an actual strategy and not just a means of successfully executing it. Leon has clearly lost more transactions than he won during his tenure, yet nearly all of the lost value was recoverable until the Bridges trade was plopped onto the scale like a bunch of gold-painted lead bullion.
Yeah Strat, at 62 I was still playing reasonably competitive hoops. Now I hurt even before playing a round of golf.
But alas, I just attended a memorial service for one of my same-age peer principals from the east side, great guy, everything to live for. So every day is a gift, and birthdays should mostly serve to remind us of that.
Sorry for your loss, Strat.
I’m thankful for all I’ve got, including you guys.
I might do my annual “see if I can still stand on my head without use of a wall on each birthday” trick, although GF says she wants me to quit doing it. This is one of those things that she might not need to know about, even if I’m successful. If I do it and I’m unsuccessful (which could happen any year now), I figure she’ll end up knowing about it. 🙂
EDIT: Just tried it. Does it count if one gets 80 percent of the way there and then aborts mission because of blood rushing to the head? Maybe GF is right about this one. (She’s right about way too much.)
It was Z who suffered the loss of his peer—egregious error on my part. Very, very sorry for your loss, Z.
Lol, Hubs. The Colts went 3-13 in Peyton’s first season. They drafted 4th in the 99 draft and then got Edgerrin James, who turned out to be a Hall of Fame running back.
Giants went 6-10 Eli’s rookie season. Three of the guys they drafted the next year ended up being core guys in their championship teams.
Obviously a high draft pick in the NFL can get you a player that changes your franchise. But still doesn’t change my overall premise. You need 1 all NBA player to change an NBA team. You need at least 4 or 5 pro bowl guys to change an NFL team. The NFL also has like 4 rounds in their draft.
I’m not saying tanking doesn’t happen in the NFL or that it doesn’t help teams to draft higher. Just that one single player can’t turn around an NFL team completely on their own because you need 22 starters to field an NFL team.
I’ve been very inactive the last fews years. My girlfriend bought me an Apple Watch for Christmas. I’ve been using it to track my sleep and fitness. I was pretty shocked at how far down I went since 62 once I started seeing the data and becoming active again.
I was using a thigh master to work on my inner legs. I pulled a muscle, wound up with a swollen testicle and was out of commission for 3 weeks.
I went for a 1 1/2 mile walk the other day with a few very slow jogs for 30 seconds in between and my ass and hips were killing me the next day.
My V02 max is basically telling me I’m a dead man walking.
All the data is improving, but 5 years of inactivity since 62 did a lot of damage even though my weight remained good.
To be accurate, the principal was a very respected (and in many ways, like-minded) colleague, but we were not particularly close socially beyond groups of us going out for drinks after monthly meetings a few years back. I also knew his wife professionally, as she was also a very sweet and highly-respected principal and for a while served at the school across the street from mine. So the loss is more for the school community that he served and the NYCDOE in general, as school leaders of his caliber are few and far between. But I thank you for the kind words, as any time someone I know and respect passes, even if not a family member or close friend, it both hurts and makes me aware of my own mortality.
It was Brunson’s picks that got OG open
“Yeah getting Eli Manning didn’t do anything for the giants. His brother didn’t change the Colts much either.”
I actually thought that you meant Daniel Jones.
Strat, I have largely been physically active conrinuously, and for the last couple of years have been working out regularly at a pretty strenuous level, both cardio and weight training. I need to lose 15 lbs or so, but that would require me to stop drinking, which would require me to stop rooting for the Knicks. Not happening!
Just seems like everything is sore and stiff all the time until I get moving, and then I feel fine. I’ve been worked up 9 ways till Sunday for this alpha-gal thing, so the good news is that some sneaky stuff that I wouldn’t have info on, e.g. blood cancers, have been ruled out. But at our age, we’ve seen enough people go from perfectly healthy to, well, you know…that it’s important to keep that “every day is a gift” mantra going.
Strat, I’m far from an expert (KfaninCelticLand, weigh in), but consistent exercise can reverse that decline to a good degree. I understand how hard it is to do consistent exercise when you injure yourself doing it, but find something you can do without damage and after some weeks you’ll be able to handle more. Studies on the “Norwegian 4×4” (which I don’t recommend unless you get to a certain baseline of health) show enormous gains in reverting to a “young heart.”
The entire spirit of a draft, though, is that older players legitimately age out and need to he replaced by younger ones. Aging teams shouldn’t be punished for being in decline and less competitive. They need the draft.
It’s the gap year teams, and the teams resting otherwise healthy players, and the teams trying to keep their protected picks, and the teams pulling their starters when they get a lead that need to be weeded out and precluded from participating in a lottery.
The “front office culture“ has simply figured out what knickerbloggers have been saying for years. The treadmill of mediocrity is bad to be on: it’s better to be very bad than not very good; better to be terrible than not fantastic. It’s one thing when one person figures it out and does it, but when everybody figures it out and does it, the walla come tumbling down.
The golden age peaked two years ago and is obviously over: there is probably going to be one champ for the next six years, maybe the Spurs can grab one too if Wemby can stay healthy.
Nonsense…. only if you want to be. Only 3 things need to be done to be “healthy” under generl circumstances:
1) Walk briskly for 40 minutes Every. Fucking.Day without exception.
2) Do some resistance training as you age you need to maintasin functional strength and muscle mass . Something as simple as getting up and down out of a chair without using your arms 20 times a day for your quads, toe raises for your calves, some planks for your core, etc. Nothing fancy and no need for fancy equipment.
3) Most importantly… Eat only whole foods and no self medicating. Nothing processed in any way. No restaurant food. I don’t care if your diet is carnivore, keto or vegan, if it is processed, flush it. If it grows from the ground or walks or flies, have at it. If it has an ingredient list six miles long, toss it.
Don’t worry about Norwegian 4x4s which 70 year old guys can’t do without literally years of training. You aren’t ever getting your cardio back to the level where you can attain 85% of you maximal HR for 4 minutes, so don’t worry about it. Walking briskly for 40 minutes will get you back into Zone 2 which is fine for general health.
Thanks for all the suggestions, but can I start tomorrow. I’m going to need a lot of alcohol and my couch to get through tonight’s game. 😉
I hear you loud and clear.
Your max HR goes down year by year, so actually you can. It’s just a lower number, but the benefit is the same.
Still, it needs to be worked up to. I’m old, too, so I know whereof I speak.
This site uses User Verification plugin to reduce spam. See how your comment data is processed.