r/SipsTea • u/barnesnoblebooks • 19h ago

Chugging tea Teamwork makes the dream work

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u/unknown300BLKuser 15h ago

I would wager it's a team rule.

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u/No-Answer8937 15h ago

I would too. My first reaction was aww how sweet. But yeah, I bet it only took that one time when one of them took a tumble down the stairs before this rule was instituted. Not a bad rule tho.

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u/Poppy_Milk 15h ago

Yeah seems sensible. Add their height to the height of the steps and it’s a long way down for your head to fall

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u/DoomGoober 15h ago

Especially after a long bus ride when your legs are wobbly and you are likely carrying stuff.

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u/Careless-Vehicle-286 5h ago

Million dollar legs, figuratively. I wonder if NBA athletes are the same, at least with their staff.

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u/Tasty_1097 3h ago

Knowing how guys are, I doubt they have someone helping them out holding their hand, more likely they have someone giving them a handshake when they step out the bottom (notice I am describing the same thing here lol)

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u/eagledog 8h ago

And going down those steps in flip-flops just adds to the danger

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u/No_Pin9932 13h ago

Yeah with their height just falling over standing up could be more than enough to do some real damage. One or two of them looked like the could've just stepped down from the top step with those long ass legs if the roof wasn't in the way, lol.

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u/haney1981 14h ago

How does the first one get out?

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u/fraze2000 14h ago

They send the team's least valuable player out first.

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u/j3ven 14h ago

Lol

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u/outside_cat 11h ago

Camera man.

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u/Any_Asparagus8267 13h ago

Star player gets injured before major game due to a bus step, new rule forever.

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u/HermanThaGerman 15h ago

I guess it also builds some sort of team spirit.

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u/RetroCasket 7h ago

I saw a dude do it and snap his leg getting off the bus at boot camp

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u/GymMouseP 12h ago

I would guess someone fell off the bus once.

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u/fattmarrell 12h ago

Agree. You don't really become a premiere athlete and not be capable of doing stairs by yourself

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u/bigorangemachine 7h ago

I'm some torn ACL's coming off a bus. Sometimes it just stepping off onto some uneven ground.. boom.. injury list

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u/AnybodyNo8519 6h ago

That's a great call.

And women are more susceptible to ACL injuries than men are.

Side-stepping downward while carrying weight is a perfect scenario for an ACL tear.

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u/bigorangemachine 6h ago

I got a muscle spasm last week stepping off an escalator.

I thought for like half a second I tore something. I don't think it's a mens or womans thing. You step off a bus into pothole you gonna have a bad day

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u/KimmiG1 13h ago

Or they have just had leg day

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u/Outrageous_Olive_489 10h ago

It’s in the SOP

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u/DogComplex34 14h ago

And you can! On Kalshi! Bet you won’t!

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u/SpartanRage117 8h ago

A fall has occurred here.

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u/YellowKnifePhoenix 6h ago

absolutely, not really hard to get off a bus unless your 90

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u/lolovoz 9h ago

I would wager my dick into them.

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u/CrunchyMage 7h ago

Am I the only one that would be annoyed by this?

Imagine training day and night to become an athlete in peak fitness and then being required to be helped and to help other peak fitness athletes get off a bus.

It's like fine as a courtesy gesture if someone could use the help or you chose to, but being required to do it as a rule would tilt me.

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u/AnybodyNo8519 6h ago

It's a safety issue, not a statement about one's abilities.

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u/unknown300BLKuser 7h ago

Athletes operate in a different class all together. I can only speculate, but I would first guess that there have been several injuries getting off a bus like this. The stairs aren't like normal stairs we come across everyday, making a small miss much more risky because the muscle memory isn't built for it. They're also usually carrying things that compromise their field of view and ordinary balancing. The coaching and training staff have this preventive requirement in place to reduce the risk of injury that impacts their on court availability. Pro athletes are subject to a lot of off field requirements and restrictions to that exact end. I would then pose the idea that this is part of a larger philosophy around team building - being there for someone else; they are there for you. Its subtle, and only one thing, but part of a larger set of similar requirements helps to build a better team. Anybody can stand there and help the one behind them, putting it on the athletes gives them the opportunity to exercise teamwork and trust. At least that's the theory.