Stay on topic , dont let the narrative shift ! Cant have anything disrupting the narrative ! A few hundred ? Try millions . Literally fucking millions of people <| sep |> I don ' t think the point about injuries is legit at all . After reading this a r t i c l e o r leanspelicansseasoninjury I ' m inclined to agree with you . I think AD ' s injury problems are a result of the Pelicans ' substandard training staff rather than because AD is injury prone . Here are a couple key excerpts from that articleSuccess requires fitting resources , and in the Pelicans ' case , the whole operation works in conjunction with the NFL ' s Saints ', as that team ' s facility shares the Pelicans ' campus space in suburban Metairie , Louisiana . Duane Brooks , for one , is quite familiar with the football branch of Tom Benson ' s New Orleans prosports monolith . When Jon Ishop , a former Houston Texans assistant trainer who spent four seasons as the Pelicans ' director of sports medicine and head athletic trainer , departed two summers ago to take a similar position on Stan Van Gundy ' s staff in Detroit , Demps said an organizational decision was made to bring Brooks over from the Saints , with whom he had spent 13 seasons as an assistant trainer . Brooks , who also worked at Florida State , said he has had to adjust with the Pelicans to a basketball player ' s schedule , to an increase in administrative duties and to a staff that has replaced all five of its medical professionals in the past two years but overall , he feels comfortable in his new role in a different sport . Then laterJared Lewis is officially a medical practitioner , but his station of physical therapist often places him more in the role of investigator . His first big case ? The mystery of Holiday ' s aching knee . Brooks says the Pelicans knew Holiday might encounter some issues in the first season after he suffered the stress fracture in his right leg . What they didn ' t know was how much . Holiday started the first 37 games of 201415 , at an average of 32 . 6 minutes a game one fewer than in 201314 , before the January diagnosis of a stress reaction forced the team to shut him down again . Brooks concedes now that playing a normal minutes load was probably not the best idea . Knowing now , that ' s something we probably could have changed , but it was a collective effort , Brooks says . This is the second year going into it . If this was his first year coming from it not last year he would probably have issues this year . I don ' t think him playing heavy minutes initially was the reason . I think that ' s part of it , but I don ' t think that ' s it . Maybe New Orleans should , you know , have a guy who is experienced in dealing with basketball players be in charge of the care and training of their basketball players , rather than a guy who ' s whole career has been dealing with football players . They are totally different sports , after all .