Rooney was such a fixture in the Steel City that he regularly walked to home games. 08mph, 81 games played (only six more NBA players played every game this season); 34. against Hernandez, his role as the driver of the car the night of the shootings and his criminal record. t will be fascinating to see how long he can ‘maintain the rage’,” says Penfold, “what you also find is that players develop a fitness capacity over each season, so that the effort required to get through a season becomes less and less as they become accustomed to the physical demands needed and their body develops both an adaptation and resilience to these stresses.