Sam Presti's thoughts on Achilles injuries juxtaposed with Adam Silver's comments last week The defensive nature of trying to convince people players and teams that there's no connection between the loads and the injuries I think we're kind of bordering on a level it's almost insulting

Bill Simmons questions whether Adam Silver is right person to lead NBA

Bill Simmons on Adam Silver This is the most important decision of his career

Bill Simmons questions whether Giannis is still a top 5 player and doesnt think teams should trade all their assets for him He doesnt play Hes closer to Embiid than Jokic He doesn't play He gets hurt all the time He's hurt all the time I would be really scared about this

Adam Silver on tanking Are we seeing behavior that is worse this year than we've seen in recent memory Yes is my view

Rick Carlisle had very strong words for how the NBA office handled the medical examination calling it ridiculous and shocking

Damian Lillard I wouldn't say I'm representing the achilles nation or nothing like that I do think I represent strength We are athletes so when we go through injury people act like it's the end of the world