{"id":45566,"date":"2025-11-20T02:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45566\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T02:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T02:01:09","slug":"josh-hart-and-steve-kerr-agree-on-nbas-schedule-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/45566\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hart and Steve Kerr agree on NBA&#8217;s schedule problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DALLAS \u2014 After Steve Kerr sounded the alarm on the NBA\u2019s pace and schedule <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/18\/sports\/steve-kerr-pinpoints-what-he-believes-is-causing-nba-soft-tissue-injuries\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">contributing to a rash of injuries<\/a>, Josh Hart agreed that there are too many games, but also recognized the financial benefit is a compelling argument for status quo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo I think there\u2019s too many games? Yeah,\u201d Hart said Thursday of the 82-game schedule before the Knicks faced the Mavericks. \u201cConversely, will [the owners] and the league and players take a pay cut to not do that? I don\u2019t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to sit there and say that we play too many games \u2014 which we do \u2014 but conversely, we\u2019re also blessed to be able to benefit greatly from it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Kerr argued, the new fad of playing fast \u2014 a style the Knicks have adopted under coach Mike Brown \u2014 has increased the strain on bodies, particularly soft-tissue ligaments and tendons. In the wake of Achilles tendon tears suffered by Tyrese Haliburton, Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard, Dejounte Murray and Jayson Tatum, team medical staffs are clearly wary of calf strains developing into ruptures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS \u2014 After Steve Kerr sounded the alarm on the NBA\u2019s pace and schedule contributing to a rash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4778,21,9,11,1104,10,319,428,26032],"class_list":{"0":"post-45566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-josh-hart","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-knicks","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-plus","16":"tag-steve-kerr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}