NBA All-Injury Team, Playoff Edition: How Teams Can Survive Their Fallen Stars

April 28th, 2016 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

If you're a fan of healthy impact players, the 2016 NBA playoffs are not for you.

Injuries are part of the game, and there are always absences we're left to lament during high-stakes postseason pushes. But there have been more recent bumps and bruises and breaks and sprains than usual this year—at least that's how it seems.

Instead of pouting over this springtime misfortune, refreshing our Twitter feeds in search of encouraging updates that aren't coming, it makes more sense to look on the bright side: We can now build an All-Injured Playoff Team.

Selections will be limited to six high-impact players—five starters and a sixth man—all of whom hail from active playoff squads. In order to prevent terminal cases of the sadz, we will offer ways for every team to survive the untimely exits of these key contributors.  

 

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