Internal helper: fetch league-wide ESPN basketball injuries — .espn_basketball_league

Fetches the injuries array from https://site.api.espn.com/apis/site/v2/sports/basketball/{league}/injuries and returns a flat tibble. The season parameter is informational only (ESPN's injury endpoint does not accept a ?season= query parameter) but is attached as a constant column on the output for downstream joins.

Usage

.espn_basketball_league_injuries(league, season, ...)

Arguments

league: character(1). One of "wnba" or "womens-college-basketball".
season: numeric or character. The season year (e.g. 2025). Attached as a constant column; not sent as a query parameter.
...: Currently unused. Reserved for future argument threading.

Value

A wehoop_data tibble (or NULL on error). Columns depend on the ESPN response; expected columns include team_id, athlete_id, athlete_name, position, status, date, type, side, returns_at, short_comment, long_comment. Returns an empty tibble when ESPN's injuries array is empty (common for WBB).