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Authors
Herzog, Mackenzie M.
Brink, Alexandra
Gondalia, Rahul
DiFiori, John P.
Mack, Christina D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3495-3796
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Basketball Association
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Article History
Accepted: 30 April 2026
First Online: 30 May 2026
Declarations
Conflict of interest and funding: The NBA Injury and Illness Database is funded by the NBA. No author received direct, individual payment for this work. Alexandra Brink, Dr. Rahul Gondalia, and Dr. Christina Mack are employees and Dr. Mackenzie Herzog was an employee of IQVIA during the time of this study, which is in a paid consultancy with the NBA. Dr. John DiFiori is a consultant for the NBA.
Data Sharing: Data analyzed in this study are not publicly available.
Contributorship Statement: All authors had full access to all data in the study and take responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Dr. Mackenzie Herzog, Alexandra Chretien, and Dr. Rahul Gondalia completed the acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data as well as the statistical analysis. Drs. DiFiori and Mack contributed to acquisition and interpretation of data. All authors contributed to the concept and design of the study, interpretation of the results, drafting of the manuscript, and critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content.
Ethics approval: This study was approved by the NBA Physicians Research Committee and the Hospital for Special Surgery Institutional Review Board (IRB study no. 2024–0077) and performed in accordance with the standards of ethics outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki.
