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Oak, Mason, Xavier McDaniels, Bill Lambier - the NBA has plenty of psychos to be sure. But ****ing Wallace was a tank and just seemed to have blind rage constantly simmering just below the surface. |
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I don't remember Ben Wallace doing anything crazy, even though he was partly responsible for the brawl at the Palace. I also wonder how many "accidental" elbows Karl Malone would have fed to Draymond. |
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It was just the way he carried himself out there. He didn't feel some need to bark all the time - he just sauntered around, let 'sheed do the talking but he had a presence that let you know that he could kill you with his bare hands if he felt so inclined... |
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That said, I have no doubt Charles Oakley would have been an ATG heavyweight fighter. No one was willing to mix it up with him. The story of him bitch-slapping Barkley is nightmare fuel. |
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Brutal basketball. |
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It is looking unlikely Warriors forward Draymond Green will be suspended for Game 3 vs. Kings after stepping on Domantas Sabonis when Sabonis grabbed his leg on Monday night, sources tell <a href="https://twitter.com/TheAthletic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheAthletic</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Stadium?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Stadium</a>.</p>— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShamsCharania/status/1648423652025856000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2023</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Not surprising unfortunately. The NBA under Adam Silver has routinely appeased the Warriors and it appears this will be no different. Remember that Draymond only got suspended back in 2016 because he had accumulated enough "flagrant foul points" throughout the playoffs. Up until then, when they had no choice by their own rules to suspend, they just let him freely kick/punch players in the balls all postseason. |
Back when Bill Simmons had a fastball:
The John Shaft Award This goes to Oakley. One of the networks needs to have a "Coolest guy on the planet" contest because Oakley would absolutely win. You know those "Road House" scenes in which Swayze just stands in the bar, surveying the scene with a thin smile on his face, barely moving a fingernail and meanwhile, 10 drunk guys are brawling a few feet away from him? That's what Oakley is like. You could hire some extras to play gang members at one of these parties, then have them fire blanks at each other 10 feet from Oakley and I'm not even sure he would flinch. The great thing about him: He served as MJ's enforcer in Chicago, and now they're both retired ... and from what I could tell, he's still Jordan's enforcer. Could there be a greater tribute in life to someone's kickassability than Michael Jordan himself deciding, "You know what? I need to make sure he's still on my side. I don't care if we're in our 40s." Personally, I think Oak could do more. Why couldn't he become the next great action hero? He's got the looks, the size, the swagger ... at the very least, he could mumble through his lines and become the black Steven Seagal. For God's sake, everyone in the league is still afraid of him, personified by the one-sided Tyrone Hill/Oakley and Jeff McInnis/Oakley feuds, as well as the famous story of Oak slapping Barkley hard across the face during a '99 lockout players-only meeting, which became his signature "Here's why you don't mess with Oakley" moment Anyway, on Thursday night, I asked one relatively famous current player who knows him, "What makes Oakley more intimidating than everyone else?" His answer: "There's a lotta tough guys in the league, but Oak don't give a f---." Well, then. Should there be reality TV cameras following Oak around at all times? Sure, I think so. But what do I know? By the way, we're not done with him yet, either. |
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