Adam Silver Reveals NBA Will Use AI For Major Injury Issue

Considering that, Commissioner Adam Silver revealed that the league intends to use AI to get to the bottom of this issue and determine why the injury happened so often this season:

“I’m hopeful that by looking at more data, by looking at patterns, this is one area where A.I. — people are talking about how that’s going to transform so many areas — the ability with A.I. to ingest all video of every game a player’s played in to see if you can detect some pattern that we didn’t realize that leads to an Achilles injury,” Silver said on ESPN's NBA Draft coverage. “We’re taking it very seriously.”

Silver also dismissed the notion of shortening the season, claiming that data showed that most of these injuries in the past decade happened before the All-Star break.

Fans and even players have come forward to urge the league to shorten the schedule to avoid major injuries.

Teams play fewer back-to-backs and hold fewer practices to keep the players out of harm's way, but ironically, the load management era has also seen an unprecedented rise in season-ending and chronic ailments.