What's the Deal with all the Injuries in the NBA Basketball Playoffs?

Watching the NBA playoffs I've been struck by the injuries: Bucks, Heat, Clippers, 76ers, New Orleans, even the Nuggets, all beset and/or haunted by injuries in the playoffs. So I'm looking for some related info and came upon this curiosity, from the WSJ:

Over the course of a season, 30.8 injuries occur for every 100 National Football League players, compared with 38.8 injuries in the National Hockey League, 42 in Major League Baseball and 72.9 in the National Basketball Association, according to a 2021 analysis of injuries across 13 seasons of professional sports from ...

 

The point of the story, apparently (the rest was behind a paywall), was that it isn't the frequency of injuries in the NFL that matter so much as the seriousness of the injuries. But, still, twisted ankles, knee strains, whatever, look at that comparative frequency number for the NBA?!