Paul George: From your perspective, why you think that’s such a common injury for the NBA now? Paul Pierce: Man, that’s crazy that you said that. Me and Kevin Garnett we were just talking about this, man. We say it’s a combination of the like pace, the pace is a part of it but we like man he like KG made an interesting point he was like ‘they don’t practice no more’. Cuz now you conditioned to play so many games like when you practice like… let me ask you this: What year did you come in? Paul George: 2010. Paul Pierce: Okay so now you didn’t played in like you could say like three eras now, so what’s the difference from like think about early 2010 and 11 till now? Paul George: It is the practice and I’m the one for like I be pushing the coach like ‘Yo, we need to practice more’.
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