Metabolic load comparison between the quarters of a game in elite male basketball players using sport metabolomics.

: A basketball match is characterized by intermittent high-intensity activities, thereby relying extensively on both aerobic and anaerobic metabolic pathways. Here, we aimed to compare the metabolic fluctuations between the four 10-min quarters of high-level basketball games using metabolomics analyses. : 70 male basketball players with at least 3 years of experience in the Iran national top-league participated.