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isiah thomas
One of the best point guards in history, Zeke was so controversial and controversial that he ended up outside the Barcelona 92 Dream Team. He took his friend Magic Johnson with him when he failed him after the announcement that he had contracted the HIV virus… Michael Jordan’s documentary, the famous The Last Dance, was in charge of refreshing Isiah’s complicated career… which was also questioned outside of the tracks, with complaints of sexual harassment when he was general manager of the New York Knicks.
Bill Laimbeer and Rick Mahorn
The fearsome inner couple of the Bad Boys, the Pistons led by Isiah and who were knocking down the Bulls of Michael Jordan, the Celtics of Larry Bird and the Lakers of Magic towards their two rings (1989 and 1990). An ultra-physical, violent team that applied the Jordan Rules, a defensive system created to minimize a Jordan who beat himself up in the gym every summer to come back stronger and continue to challenge that wall of muscles that knocked him down in the playoffs three years in a row. in the playoffs (1988-90), just before the start of his reign. Laimbeer, the superior of the two by length (four times all star) and Mahorn played together between 1985 and 1989. The second was only in the first ring and was in charge of making personal fouls “really noticeable” and there would be no trays on your hoop. Laimbeer, a great center, was also considered one of the dirtiest players in the NBA and with a string of harsh fouls and hitches with everyone he got in front of.
Dennis Rodman
Another that started in the Bad Boys, where they already called him The Worm, the Worm. But later he was Michael Jordan’s squire in the Bulls, he went through Lakers, Spurs, Mavericks… He gives for one of the most particular biographies in the history of the NBA his collection of extravagances, problems with the referees, acts of indiscipline, scandals, headlines in the pink press… Before all that, wedding dresses and hair dyes, he did everything the Pistons asked him to do: hit Scottie Pippen, fights with Alonzo Mourning, shoves and theater to get on Karl’s nerves Malone… And from there, from sports, to the parties in Las Vegas when he played for the Bulls and his indiscipline messes in his final with Lakers, Mavericks…
Bruce Bowens
This forward, whom Andrés Montes called Bruce Lee, often says that he was “tough, but not dirty.” And it was tough, of course. Stopper of Popovich’s Spurs when they were still an eminently physical and defensive team, before their subsequent evolution. Three-time champion, five-time member of the Best Defensive Quintet and with the number 12 retired by the Spurs. In San Antonio he took it upon himself to do the hard work and spread the bad reputation he earned in Boston and Miami. His worst incident, kicking Wally Szczerbiak in the face. Some of his biggest controversies, against the fine Suns of Seven Seconds Or Less. One of the early prototypes of 3+D (a specialist in defense and shooting free 3-pointers), he was also a defender who had no problem going over the edge to stop the opposing team’s outside star.
Karl Malone and John Stockton
The cursed couple that was left without a ring: Malone, the second highest scorer in history (LeBron James is hot on his heels) and Stockton, historical leader in assists and steals. Two of the best players who were never champions, and two bitter rivals of Michael Bulls: the Bulls beat the Jazz in their last two titles (1997 and 1998 Finals). The two had a reputation at the time of dirty players. Malone’s elbows and Stockton’s scratches and hip bumps were famous. And the two disappeared after the map in the NBA. Malone dragged the bad fame for a case of paternity with a minor and also criticized Magic Johnson after his positive for HIV. Stockton, in recent years, has earned criticism from many in the League for his radical political positions and his latest statements in which he has positioned himself as anti-vaccine, contrary to science and perfectly willing to spread fake news.
Rick Barry
One of the great scorers of his time, champion in the ABA (1969) and in the NBA with the Warriors (1975), who retired his number 24, and with twelve all stars between the two competitions. But also, as Slate magazine put it, “the most impossibly arrogant son of a bitch to ever step foot on a basketball court.” In his autobiography (which he wrote when he was only 27 years old) he acknowledged that he had beaten a nun and assured that his own mother called him “greedy”. He jumped between the ABA and the NBA, which charged against him, for money and family reasons (his father-in-law was a coach) and the former Warriors executive, Ken Macker, defined his times in the franchise like this: “You will never see a groups of veterans sit down and talk about the good old days with Rick. His teammates and his rivals detested him, all equally”. Over the years, Barry (who also used to get into fights with rivals on the track) assumed that he had not given reasons for the fans to remember him fondly or to leave a trail of friends after his professional career.
Ron Artest / Metta World Peace
A Defender of the Year and all star in 2004 who was crowned with the 2010 Lakers, when he was vital in the ring won in seven games against the Celtics. Right after, he thanked his psychologist from the podium of the press conference. A player with control problems, some literally violent actions and scandals since his arrival in the NBA, when he drank cognac in the breaks of his rookie season with the Bulls. His lowest point, of course, the great fight in the history of the League, the Malice At The Palace in the duel between his Pacers and the Pistons. He was sanctioned, after jumping into the stands and hitting fans, without playing the rest of the season (73 regular season games and 13 playoff games), which meant a loss in salary of almost 5 million dollars. His violent elbow to James Harden (in a 2012 Lakers-Thunder), another low point of a career whose demons he exorcised in the autobiography Don’t malice.
Kermit Washington
A case of a single play that marked a run. Washington was a big and very active defensive forward, tough, who was chosen by the Lakers with number 5 in the 1973 draft. He became an all-star and also played for Celtics, Clippers, Warriors… But on December 9, 1977 he made a mistake that drastically affected his career. Rudy Tomjanovich, who was the legendary coach of the Texans, played for the Rockets that faced the Lakers that night. He went to separate a brawl, something about which there are different theories because there are no clear images, and he took a brutal punch from Washington. The images perfectly captured the blow, Tomjanovich was left on the ground, in the middle of a pool of blood with fractures of the nasal septum and corneas. Washington was banned for the entire season (26 games remaining) and $10,000. Everyone considered him a villain, Saturday Night Live made gags with the punch and John Feinstein published a book (The Punch) about the infamous move. Washington was marked and ended up being traded by the Lakers.
Latrell Sprewell
An incredible talent who was a four-time all-star, he made the All-Star Five in 1994 and a All-Defensive Second Team. He played on big teams like the 1999 finalist Knicks (he led his team in the title race) and the 2004 Wolves, all-contenders with him, Sam Cassell and a huge Kevin Garnett. But he was also a constant source of trouble. Pointed out by public opinion after his incident with coach PJ Carlesimo when he was playing for the Warriors in 1997. In training, he ended up grabbing Carlesimo by the neck and suffocating him for several seconds, until they were separated. He had threatened to kill the coach, whom he attacked again after going through the shower. The NBA ended up suspending him for the entire season and the Warriors cut him after a highly criticized first ten-game ban. He ended up losing almost everything in a ruinous divorce and after rejecting a renewal offer from the Wolves, who offered him an extension that guaranteed him, at 33 years old, more than 27 million. He said that he did not accept her because he had “children to feed.” He played without an extension in the 2004-05 season, things went poorly for him, he left the NBA and saw no more money as a professional player.
Danny Ainge
He wasn’t the toughest of those legendary Celtics of the ’80s… but he was the dirtiest. At least, the one that most annoyed rival players and hobbies. Ainge was considered the agitator, the one who started fights that ended up being massive, the one who got into opponents’ heads to get them out of the game. His biggest tangana, with Tree Rollins, left a scar on his finger. In the 1987 Finals, he bought a Lakers fan his jersey, which said “I Hate Danny Ainge,” overheard Danny Ainge, and warmed up in it. Later, on the Suns, he left another sorry image when he slammed a ball into the face of Mario Elie (Rockets). He was a two-time champion with the Celtics and a member of the 1986 team, one of the best in history. And he was in the Suns that in 1993 played the Finals against Michael Jordan’s Bulls.
Source: Eluniverso
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