Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players

The aim of this retrospective study was to compare the return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association (NBA) players according to their surgery status, skin color, player positions, injury location, type, and duration. Fifty-four NBA players who sustained an injury between...

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Main Authors: Elif Cengizel, Alperen Altıntaş
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego 2025-01-01
Series:Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine
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Online Access:https://wnus.usz.edu.pl/cejssm/en/issue/1518/article/21018/
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description The aim of this retrospective study was to compare the return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association (NBA) players according to their surgery status, skin color, player positions, injury location, type, and duration. Fifty-four NBA players who sustained an injury between 2018 and 2022 seasons were identified and only five match before and after the injury were examined to determine the acute effect of the injury. A significant decrease in minutes per game (MPG, pre-injury: 27.4±8.4min, post-injury: 25.5±6.9min, p=.019), field goal points (FGP, pre-injury: 5.4±2.9, post-injury: 2.4±0.3, p=.008), and field goal attempted (FGA, pre-injury: 11.6±5.9, post-injury: 5.2±0.7, “large” ES: 1.52, p=.004) in NBA players after the injury. 70.4% of the injured athletes underwent surgery, 72.2% were black skin color players, the most injured player position was guards (37%), the most injured area was the lower extremity (40.7%), 59.3% were broken, and most of them had an injury duration between 7-30 days (31.5%). The NBA players who returned to play after injury showed a significant decrease in MPG, FGP, FGA. The findings of this research provide important indicators for sports medicine physicians, coaches, and practitioners and can be a guide to understanding how return-to-play performance is affected by injury factors.
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spelling doaj-art-e62c7c642f77485e9879d59a31480a882025-08-20T02:46:42ZengWydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu SzczecińskiegoCentral European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine2300-97052025-01-014910.18276/cej.2025.1-03Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball playersElif Cengizel0Alperen Altıntaş1Gazi UniversityGazi University, TurkeyThe aim of this retrospective study was to compare the return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association (NBA) players according to their surgery status, skin color, player positions, injury location, type, and duration. Fifty-four NBA players who sustained an injury between 2018 and 2022 seasons were identified and only five match before and after the injury were examined to determine the acute effect of the injury. A significant decrease in minutes per game (MPG, pre-injury: 27.4±8.4min, post-injury: 25.5±6.9min, p=.019), field goal points (FGP, pre-injury: 5.4±2.9, post-injury: 2.4±0.3, p=.008), and field goal attempted (FGA, pre-injury: 11.6±5.9, post-injury: 5.2±0.7, “large” ES: 1.52, p=.004) in NBA players after the injury. 70.4% of the injured athletes underwent surgery, 72.2% were black skin color players, the most injured player position was guards (37%), the most injured area was the lower extremity (40.7%), 59.3% were broken, and most of them had an injury duration between 7-30 days (31.5%). The NBA players who returned to play after injury showed a significant decrease in MPG, FGP, FGA. The findings of this research provide important indicators for sports medicine physicians, coaches, and practitioners and can be a guide to understanding how return-to-play performance is affected by injury factors.https://wnus.usz.edu.pl/cejssm/en/issue/1518/article/21018/NBA playersinjury typereturn-to-gameinjury locationoffensive actions
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Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players
Central European Journal of Sport Sciences and Medicine
NBA players
injury type
return-to-game
injury location
offensive actions
title Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players
title_full Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players
title_fullStr Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players
title_full_unstemmed Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players
title_short Return-to-play performance after injury in National Basketball Association League basketball players
title_sort return to play performance after injury in national basketball association league basketball players
topic NBA players
injury type
return-to-game
injury location
offensive actions
url https://wnus.usz.edu.pl/cejssm/en/issue/1518/article/21018/
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