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Gary Vitti: When you're trying to slow down, these muscles are lengthening under great tension, more tension than when you're when the muscles are shortening. When you're running in a straight line, they're shortening. Okay? Now they're lengthening on their great tension. And if they can't handle the load, wherever that load is at that moment, if that link in the kinetic chain can't handle the load, it's going to fail and that's where you're going to get hurt. Okay? And it's kind of that simple. Now, you add in the turning, torque, twisting. Hey, now you're really putting yourself in harm's way because that's how we tear ACL's. That's how we tear meniscus in your knee. You don't tear a meniscus by running in a straight line. You tear it when you plant your foot and turn. Okay. And so, so yes, it is about playing too much basketball, but probably not so much as playing so much and not having recovery time. It's playing so much that you've developed these postural and movement dysfunctional patterns.

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Gary Vitti: So what we do know about the human body and this is well documented in the research is that repetitive movement causes compensation and the compensation causes dysfunction. In terms of basketball, the game is played between here and here. What we call the core. I'm going to ask you a question: Who's the player that you know that played over 20 years that was doing core work before we even talked about core and never got hurt. Byron Scott: Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Vitti: That's right. He was doing yoga. And he started talking to me. He didn't use the word core. He just said the game's played between here and I started listening to him and he's right.

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Gary Vitti: So, the game is so much faster and so much more powerful. Where is all that coming from? It's coming from their hips. And it's all about the hip. So these hip flexors get really, really tight. They start to rotate your pelvis forward. That starts to really pull on your hamstring because your hamstring attaches underneath your pelvis and then crosses your knee joint. It shuts off the neural drive to your glute. So now because your glute shut off, your hamstrings doing more work that becomes prone. Your adductor muscles, which are your groin muscles, they attach underneath your pelvis. So, they're working harder. So, now it if you don't have a strong core, it's all about generating force from your lower extremity through your pelvis to your upper extremity. And we call that the kinetic chain. So, if you hit a link in the chain that can't handle the load, that's where it's going to fail.

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Gary Vitti: “When Kobe retired in 2016, I can make an argument that he was the best player with his back to the basket in the league at the time. He would not be able to play the game the way he played it in 2016. And that was just nine years ago... The way he played it, he would have killed you a different way. All right. But he would have killed you. Okay. He would have figured it out. Okay. He would have figured out before they figured it out.”

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Byron Scott: Happy 66th Birthday to the Best backcourt teammate and the greatest point guard of all time! You are my forever brother! @MagicJohnson #showtime

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Byron Scott: Tell us your All-Time starting five, you included, so you got to pick four, so you got to give me a point guard, small forward, power forward, and center. Mitch Richmond: I'm going to go Magic Johnson at point guard. I'm gonna put Michael Jordan at the three. The four… Damn. There’s Karl Malone, Tim Duncan, Charles Barkley… Charles is a little undersized, but Charles was good. And you got Kevin Durant, Kevin Garnett… I'mma go with Kevin Durant cuz we're spreading it out. And then I'mma go Big Shaq at center.

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Olden Polynice: "I broke Bill Laimbeer's face. I was the guy who broke his face. Byron Scott: That's why he was wearing that mask. Polynice: Let me tell you something: I ain't never received more cards and flowers in my life. Byron Scott: Everybody hated Laimbeer. The office called me and was like, "Yo, you got to come get all this stuff."

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The Lakers' rivalry with the Celtics apparently extends way further than the hardwood -- as Byron Scott was all smiles on Thursday realizing the sale of L.A.'s NBA franchise this week topped Boston's by nearly $4 billion!!! The former Lakers player and head coach was thrilled to see Jeanie Buss get $10 billion for her beloved team on Wednesday ... happily gloating that it bested Boston's $6.1 billion sale in March. "That's all that matters," Scott said of the price difference with a big grin. "We topped them. We topped them! We beat them by $3.9 billion!"

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All jokes aside, Scott did say he was "extremely happy" for the Buss family, whom he's known for decades. He did admit, though, Jeanie's decision to sell did surprise him a little. "We all know at the end of the day it is a business," he said. "And business is always in business to try to make money. But I think the Buss family has done it right for so many years, led by Dr. Jerry Buss, who, in my mind, is still to this day the best owner I've ever seen in professional sports."

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Byron Scott. Game seven. You need a bucket. You got two players. Which one of these two you gonna give it to? MJ or Kobe? Stephen Jackson: I’m giving it to Kobe because just off the simple fact that I know he’s going to get us a good shot. I know it. And I know we going to get an attempt. You know, you might double him and we seen him get doubled and make the pass, the right pass. If Kobe gets the ball, we going to get a shot up. I don't care if it might be over four or five people and the odds of him making it than the other four people on the court is totally different. So I'm going with Kobe. Off the top.

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Byron Scott on Kobe Bryant’s most ‘gangster’ moment: And the last one, tears his Achilles, shoots his free throws and walks out. Let me tell you why it was straight gangster. You watch him get up cuz he thought somebody kicked him, right? Just like everybody who tear their Achilles, somebody they felt like somebody kicked him or something like that. Got up, and went to the free-throw line. Before he went to the free throw line, he had to walk out and all that. Then he walked back. You watch his face. There's no grimacing, no nothing. You can see disappointment. He's like pissed. Disappointed. And then I go to one of my favorite players in the NBA, Jayson Tatum: Takes a step to go get the ball, pop! He's on the ground damn near dying. I mean, he's rolling around, you can see the agony, he's in a wheelchair. I was like, first of all, Kobe would never be wheeled out. Olden Polynice: Paul Pierce. Scott: I’m saying no names, but Kobe would never be wheeled out, right? It's the most gangster sh*t I've ever seen on the basketball court, he walks up, makes the two free throws, and walks out. Didn't get somebody to help him, of course, you got a torn Achilles, you ain't walking normally, but he walked out. You will never see nobody in this league doing that. You will never see that again.

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Shamed LA Lakers legend Byron Scott fought to have his name removed from court documents accusing him of an underage sex assault on a ‘terrified’ schoolgirl. The 6’ 4” former shooting guard and coach hoped to remain anonymous in a shocking civil action brought by Hayley Dylan, who was only 15 at the time of the alleged incident in 1987 and he was a married 26-year-old. Scott, now 64, has admitted the had sexual contact with the girl but says he thought she was 18. According to an August 2024 court filing obtained by Daily Mail, Byron wanted to be listed as John Doe and had insisted there wasn’t evidence to ‘corroborate’ his accuser’s claims.

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LA Lakers legend Byron Scott has been accused of sexually assaulting a schoolgirl in a janitor's closet when he was a young, married sporting star. Details of the case are included in explosive documents obtained by Daily Mail this week. The incident happened 38 years ago in a locked janitor’s closet at an exclusive private school in LA. It was the summer of 1987, and Scott was at the school for an event with the Lakers team, according to a verified amended complaint. The plaintiff, Hayley Dylan, who was 15 at the time, has chosen to reveal her identity rather than remain anonymous.

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Shockingly, Scott, now 64, admits that he had sexual contact with the girl but says he thought she was 18. Scott’s attorney, Linda Bauermeister, told Daily Mail: ‘Our client is devastated by this complaint, a basketball event that took place in 1987. ‘Our client believed the plaintiff to be over 18 and had no idea she would claim otherwise until 35 years later. ‘He respects girls and women, and the claims have blindsided him and his family.’ Scott was married to first wife Anita Scott, 66, whom he divorced in 2014, at the time.

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