With the Women’s NBA Finals delivering all the drama and the impending start of the 24/25 Men’s NBA season, we’re handing the TL;DR Tuesday microphone back to Dave Weiss, Senior Vice President of Player Matters at the NBA. Though Dave trained in law, he now leads the team responsible for looking after the NBA’s professional sports players.
Dave talks about how the translation of research goes both ways. While he and his team keep on top of the latest research to best inform the well-being of their players, he reflects on how during the COVID-19 pandemic the NBA were also conducting experiments into how best to navigate a major sports league through a global incident, while ensuring that their players were kept as safe and healthy as possible. He also talks about how their findings have gone on to be published to further contribute to the corpus of knowledge around the health and well-being of professional athletes.
Dave and his team are just one group conducting novel research through their profession. Back in the day, research findings could be published by anyone that encountered an interesting novel observation but this has increasingly become a word dominated by academia and industry. By ensuring that the publication of novel research is open to anyone, we can develop more inclusive best practices in a range of different walks of life that are impacted by research.
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