For NBA sports medicine experts, injuries can’t simply be attributed to the ‘injury bug’, random events that strike players down without rhyme or reason. nterfere with what we were doing and warning clubs not to deal with us, it was very stressful. “In no other country do they keep the balls,” Bays coach Doug Millward said. In the 2010 email, Manning asks Giants head equipment manager Joe Skiba asking for “two helmets that can pass as game used”.