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2745059, I feel like this was a part of the reason the NBA intentionally started...
Posted by ThaTruth, Fri Aug-13-21 09:14 AM
to go away from a more physical style of play and take away hand-checking and other things like that because of the image to was being portrayed about the league as the "TBA-Thug Basketball Association".
They needed people like Steve Nash and Dirk to win MVP's and take back the "face" of the league. Kobe was probably the best player around that time but was coming off the rape case. Lebron wasn't quite ready.
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