La privación del sueño de los jugadores en la NBA
It’s the afternoon of Feb. 26, during a three-games-in-four-nights stretch, and Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside is on a roll. Tomorrow night, his Heat will host the Golden State Warriors, then fly to Houston to face the Rockets on Feb. 28. But now he’s rattling off what time the Warriors game will end (10 p.m.), when they’ll board their flight (11:30 or later), when they’ll land in Houston (2 a.m.) and arrive at the hotel — he figures it’ll be 3 — before playing the Rockets later that day. “And that’s just what we’ve got tomorrow,” he says.
Sleep matters, Whiteside says — it matters a lot. It “could be the difference between you having a career game or playing terrible.” But therein lies the conundrum of NBA life. For something so important, it’s remarkably elusive. As Whiteside says: “It’s just so hard to get the sleep that you need.”
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