A wonderful piece on what we would say if we could talk to whales. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Wrote about one of my first loves www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Pains me to say it, but today’s game is simply more rigorous than the one I first fell in love with

Which is one reason that injuries are up:

Gameplay is more challenging:

It’s a common misconception that players have gotten longer since then. They haven’t, but they do move quicker now:

There’s a long-running (and sometimes hilarious) debate among basketball fans as to whether the NBA has become more difficult since the Jordan era:

(whispers) I dug into the science and it turns out that LeBron's NBA really is more demanding than Jordan's: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

The NBA Is Harder Now

It’s science.