It's a ridiculous assessment, the injuries in the spotlight which give bias to the thought of how many players are injured are not due to unpreparedness.
In all, I don't buy what they're trying to sell about shortened preseason and all that. If the league was going to start sooner this year, players should've started to prepare sooner as well.
If they didn't, it's on them, not on the NBA schedule which I fully support (the shortening of preseason part).
I mean, in previous years the complaint was how many players got injured in meaningless preseason games... so... what gives?