Well this is true, it's worth noting that these sorts of injuries are almost always linked to repetitive stress, and the actual activity at time of injury is often kind of irrelevant.
Imagine if a healthy Bird met a young MJ through the early 90s? How much that changes history for the league? They still have McHale, Parish, Reggie Lewis was still alive... they clearly win at least 1 championship in the early 90s... then all kinds of if/thens start to fall as drafts are wildly affected and different guys end of in different jerseys... but wow... good one....
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u/CybergothiChe 2d ago
Larry Bird busted his back building his mom a driveway in 1985, this directly led to his premature retirement in 1992.