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Isn't basketball supposed to be a no-contact sport? (Original Post)
tblue37
Sep 2020
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Afromania
(2,770 posts)1. Eastern Conference was rough business back then.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,560 posts)2. Celtic-Piston games were a war!
I miss those days when Larry Bird and Bill Lambier would mug each other in a game.....
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)3. Depends on just how you define "contact", although I would suspect..
that a left jab would fit.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)4. Basketball has always been a contact sport.
American football is a collision sport.
brush
(53,833 posts)5. That's from the 80s and 90s, the era of the Bad Boy Pistons...
and the Charles Oakley and Anthony Mason Knicks with some Celtics and Lakers sprinkled in.
The NBA doesn't allow that anymore, and the prevalence of the 3 point shot has taken much of the action from around the basket.