Ti’s Four-Point Play: The NBA’s Workhorses

Every NBA player works hard, but a select few work harder than everybody else. These four players have put in more work for their teams than anyone else in the association.

Anyone who’s made it to the NBA is an incredibly hard worker. That goes without saying. But even at the highest level of basketball, it’s possible for a player to set themselves apart with their contributions to their team.

This issue of Ti’s Four-Point Play is concerned with four of the hardest working players in the NBA. These guys are the only four players to be in the top six in both total minutes played and minutes per game right now in the NBA.

As a sort of honorable mention, four more players are in one of those groups but not the others. Gordon Hayward and Paul George are fifth and sixth in minutes played respectively, but neither of them are in the top six in minutes per game.

On the other list, Jimmy Butler and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope are first and fourth in minutes per game but neither are in the top 10 in total minutes played. If not for injuries, Butler would almost certainly be one of the four players featured in this article.

The four featured players have all played at least 2000 minutes and play in at least 36 minutes per game. They’re true workhorses, and their teams have needed them to be this season.

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