Quite the generic title. My apologies.

I workout regularly to keep from becoming too large a tub of lard, and have been reading this site more and more, as there are not many real discussion boards on fitness that I have seen that are as down-to-earth but also as forward looking to new techniques. 

That being said, most of my participation is at the SBN site Sactown Royalty, the Sacramento Kings blog. It was mentioned in a discussion over there that perhaps some professional athletes - specifically Blake Griffin, in this case, who is now out for the season - might be doing the wrong types of workouts, or going over board in their conditioning and training. This seems possible.

But is it likely? Professional basketball, hockey, football, and baseball players are part of such keyed in organizations, fitness is part of their job, and they are individually highly competitive people. How could they not be in tune to their bodies, why wouldn't they be on the cutting edge as far as workouts and training.

Still, as an NBA fan, their are some things that I have noticed. Some players are injury prone. Some never get hurt. Could the difference be in training?

Some teams seem to get "the injury bug," as if it was a virus, causing whole seasons to be off track, and sometimes the hopes of the team never recover. Other teams, and I am thinking of the Phoenix Suns, suffer rare injuries, or their players (I am thinking Amaré Stoudemire and his microfracture surgery,) seem to recover better than other teams players. In Phoenix's case, Steve Nash has actually gotten better as he has gotten older, and has not seemed to have lost a step.Could some teams have techniques and be more open to new training and fitness ideas that others?

Does their have to be a trade-off between being a professional athlete trying to maintain peak conditioning and even gaining an edge, and doing more harm to your body by over-stressing it, and maybe causing injuries from which it is difficult to recover, if possible to even do so fully?

Are professional sports injuries more due to the fact that some of these players have just been putting unusual wear and tear on bodies that are larger and taller than the average person since their youth up?

What are the thoughts of you fitness professionals out there? Is Blake Griffin doomed to be injury prone because his fitness routine has him trying to be a Navy Seal, when really he needs to scale back a bit?

Sorry for the shotgun spray of questions. I am very interested in hearing answers from all of you out there, from casual sports fans to hardcore fitness freaks.