Breaking News: Basketball is a (Ball) Contact Sport
Game 7 between the Hornets and Spurs tips off in about an hour. The Dapper Lad is excited. REALLY excited.
We dapper folk love dirty play, it shows that the players want to win and they don’t care whose back, nose, or gonads they have to crush to get to the promised land. Previously, we haven’t really had a good measuring stick that established whether a particular matchup would feature enough dirty play for our taste. No more.
If a playoff series has people worried that the young man pictured above preparing to punch Julius Hodge in the nuts will be the victim of dirty play, it’s our kind of basketball. It’s like scheduling a Mike Tyson fight and worrying about what the other guy is going to do in the ring.
