On the heels of Golden State Warriors guards Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson suffering head injuries in the Western Conference Finals, the National Basketball Players Association is set to investigate the effectiveness of the league's current concussion protocol.
Curry took a scary spill onto his head in Game 4 against the Houston Rockets last week, while Thompson was diagnosed with a concussion after taking a shot to the head in Game 5 of that same series. Both players were permitted to return to action, and the NBA union is concerned that the league isn't doing all it can to protect players from further head injuries.
According to Josh Dubow of the Associated Press, NBPA union chief Michele Roberts wants to make sure safeguards are in place to ensure players aren't being put in harm's way after suffering concussions:
That number [of players with head injuries returning to games] is sufficient to make us all look at whether we want to risk a player's health for a game. To say it happens so rarely or doesn't happen frequently enough to change the rules is not enough. We're talking potentially about som ...
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NBPA Plans to Investigate League’s Concussion Protocol
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