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tblue37

(65,217 posts) Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:44 PM Sep 2020

Isn't basketball supposed to be a no-contact sport?

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Isn't basketball supposed to be a no-contact sport? (Original Post) tblue37 Sep 2020 OP

Eastern Conference was rough business back then. Afromania Sep 2020 #1

Celtic-Piston games were a war! OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2020 #2

Depends on just how you define "contact", although I would suspect.. TreasonousBastard Sep 2020 #3

Basketball has always been a contact sport. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #4

That's from the 80s and 90s, the era of the Bad Boy Pistons... brush Sep 2020 #5

Afromania

(2,768 posts)

1. Eastern Conference was rough business back then.

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 07:52 PM

Sep 2020

OAITW r.2.0

(24,287 posts)

2. Celtic-Piston games were a war!

Reply to Afromania (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 08:00 PM

Sep 2020

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..

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 08:05 PM

Sep 2020

that a left jab would fit.

Yavin4

(35,421 posts)

4. Basketball has always been a contact sport.

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Sun Sep 6, 2020, 08:08 PM

Sep 2020

American football is a collision sport.

brush

(53,740 posts)

5. That's from the 80s and 90s, the era of the Bad Boy Pistons...

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Sun Sep 6, 2020, 11:02 PM

Sep 2020

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.

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