Basketball is basically teh most dangerous sport in the world because its got the smallest court for the number of players and the ball is constantly going up and coming down where all the players are looking at hte ball or basket, not their feet, not their bodies, not the opponents body, but the ball...which leads to lots of contact that is not expected and lots of unsure footing= the court is always flat and hard which they get use to footing wise and that all goes south when you land on someone's foot completely jacking your balance= rolled ankles, torn ACL, MCL and so forth, blown knee cartilage, torn and strained leg muscles..... and its also the sport where we fight over a large hard round ball with our hands which have rather fragile fingers and joints (wrist/elbow) and that is in the loose balls lots of broken fingers, wrist issue, elbow issue (compacted with shooting, since basketball is basically the heaviest ball thrown in sports and thrown up and the technic which is most accurate happens to completely suck for the cartilage....).....and then their is shoulder issues that comeabout grasping and fighting over that large ball with your arms fully extended above your head....
...clearly... you're not up to snuff with current events and the thousands of players in Lawsuit with NFL from injuries received from Football. Or even up to snuff with Football itself
And in Football.. they expect the contact just like soccer players. But the truth of the matter Wolph, in any sport. There is
always a guy out there, that wants it so bad, or wants it more, that they'll play rougher, they'll foul harder, they'll make a dirtier play... To think anything less is naive.
I guess examples work better: Metta WorldPeace, Stephen Jackson, Some of the pistons players from the 80s.
You're telling me, in your however long of life, you've never seen a guy intentionally step on someone's foot when they were about to shoot or rebound?