In the 2000-2001 basketball season, Allen Iverson began wearing an arm sleeve on account of bursitis in his shooting elbow. This was nearly 20 years ago. He was the first and only player to wear arm sleeves. And now, 65% of the players in the NBA wear an arm sleeve and many wear two arm sleeves. The same phenomenon is happening at the grass roots, high school, and college level. Increasingly, basketball players are wearing arm sleeves and like with many other sports, the reasons why should not come as a surprise.
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