Getting enough sleep living the NBA lifestyle has always been a challenge, but it provides enough real benefits to athletes trying to perform at their very best that many players in the league treat their naps almost religiously. Among them is Boston Celtics forward Grant Williams, who opened up to GQ’s Howard Beck. For the Tennessee alum, the magic length for naps is exactly 20 minutes.
“Twenty minutes, you fall into a slumber, you get one cycle,” explained Williams. “But if you do anything after 20 minutes, like 35-45, you wake up in the middle of (a cycle) and you’ll wake up irritable. Twenty-minute naps, you wake up pretty much energized and ready to go.”
Sometimes, however, interruptions to one’s routines can break up such intentional cycles; “You figure out how to sleep through it eventually,” explained the Charlotte native.
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