Originally Posted by
phaedrus
You're certainly entitled to your opinion, but I'm not convinced that basketball players put more time in than other athletes. Baseball, for instance, plays more games than basketball. Golf teams can be out of town for 4-5 days at a single tournament, and they play up to a dozen tournaments a year. Basketball travels a lot in March (most of the time!) but so do all teams during their championship season. And while all teams must abide by an NCAA rule restricting maximum practice time and limiting summer contact from coaches, the cross country and track teams can train largely on their own (more so than basketball, at least) and thus can far exceed those limits. I'm sure other teams have their own stories too.
Point is basketball players do commit a lot of time, maybe even more than other sports, but certainly not an amount of time that's incomparable with other athletes.