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Injuries and Sports

With recent NBA stars having to get sidelined, the bigger question about sports and injuries has to be asked.

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Klay Thompson is unlikely to return this season.

Victor Oladipo doesn't really have a surefire timeline for his return.

Kevin Durant is out for most of this season and it's likely he is out the whole season.

And recent reports are saying that Zion is going to be out for at-least 6-8 weeks. And even more scary, there is no official timeline for his return. One of the most hyped draft picks in the history of sports may potentially never play an NBA game.

The trend of NBA athletes being injured is becoming more and more apparent. All of this begs the question, what can we do about it. Some argue that the money they receive is compensation enough, I argue there needs to be a deeper conversation on how injuries are handled. Every NBA player knows the risks of playing, but often they became basketball players because that was the only way to escape poverty. Most weren't given the privilege of having the option to go to school and become an engineer or get any professional degree.

We only start to notice these injuries when they happen to elite athletes. But what about the ones that make it to college but don't go pro. Injuries plague college sports leading to red-shirts galore. Take my own school: NC State University. A good portion of our team is made up of people that have red-shirted and our power forward missed what would have been his freshman season because of shoulder injuries. Injuries that will plague him for the rest of his career. It's time we start giving compensation for college athletes. The rules that bar them from even making money off their name is outrageous.

Injuries in sports aren't uncommon but we have to start thinking about the player and stop just seeing them as entertainment.

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