The cost of the program for pros is $25,000, so for someone like Garnett, the NBA's highest-paid player at $21 million a year, the cost breaks down to just a little more than one-tenth of 1 percent of his annual salary.
Abunassar described a typical training day for players looking to improve the most subtle points of their game on the hardwood.
"The morning sessions are dedicated to individual improvement on the court, so they will go through skillwork for about an hour and a half, basketball drills very specific to their position," he said. "Tayshaun would do stuff he's going to do in the game. Kevin Garnett would do stuff he's going to do in the game. Chauncey Billups would do stuff he's going to do in the game.
"So that lasts for about an hour to an hour and a half. And then the other part of the morning, which is an equal amount of time, is spent with their performance training, which is everything from the therapy -- Tayshaun is going through his stretching -- body-efficient movement, stability, quickness, speed, strength, everything that needs to be done off the court to produce on-the-court results."
While working out at the facility, Prince, a member of the Detroit Pistons, slowly went through exercises with senior performance specialist and staff education coordinator Darryl Eto, known as "one of the best performance guys around," according to Athletes' Performance (APLV) business manager Jeff Berman.
Prince said if this type of program was around when he was a kid, he would be that much better.
"If I had the opportunity to train like this when I was in high school, it would have made college basketball and the NBA much, much easier," Prince said.
APLV performance specialist Korey Goodwin said the grind of the NBA schedule makes some of the players want to feel as healthy as possible.
"Especially with guys like him (Prince) who have played 109 games (last season), including the playoffs," Goodwin said. "They want to try and feel as good as possible day in and day out."
Abunassar said there is a lot of thought and study and science employed by his crew in developing the right type of specific workouts for all the individual players' needs.
"What is really neat about performance training here, it's all modeled after basketball movements," he said. "So Darryl and Korey studied the movements of the players on the courts and then they designed workouts that would mimic those workouts."
With a staff that also includes performance physical therapy manager Jason Biles, Abunassar has basically created a one-stop shop in Las Vegas for the player who wants to maximize his potential.
"It's the only place in the country that you can get everything in one building," he said.
After offering their skills for a price to professional and collegiate players, Abunassar and company are offering a similar program for high school players, which began Oct. 1 at the Tarkanian Basketball Academy.
"AP gets a rap for working with only the elite (athletes)," Goodwin said. "Now we're trying to work with the masses."
For more information on the program, visit www.impactbball.com or www.athletesperformance.com.
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