To all NBA players who want the season shortened . . .

I’ve been hearing lately is how Dirk Nowitzki, LeBron James and a bunch of other NBA players

Old School, baby.

want the season shortened. Seems it makes them too tired and they can’t perform to their abilities. Oh, and the long season leads to injuries!

This made me wonder if, God forbid, today’s NBA players have become softer. Surely not, amirite?

Anyway, on a whim I instructed my crack staff here at Shoe: Untied to research the matter. Here’s what they found:

How many times have these current players played in every game of the 82-game season?

Carmelo Anthony – 1

Dirk Nowitzki – 1

Dwyane Wade – 0

LeBron James – 0

How many times did these former players play every game of the 82-game season?

John Stockton – 13

Karl Malone – 10

Michael Jordan – 9

Damn it Stockton! Don’t you know how much better you’d been if you’d sat out a few games? Malone, why didn’t you take more days off? Jordan, if you’d only rested more you might have been an all-time great, a Hall of Famer even! Hell, these guys may have even been on The Dream Team!

Wait . . .

Never mind.