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A Sporting Chance: Will a Crooked Zebra Destroy the NBA?

July 25, 2007 - 10:30 pm - by Rick Moran
junyo
2007-07-25 13:47:06

“Consider Shaq in the low post… ”

I see your Shaq in the low post, and raise you the Michael Jordan Palming and Traveling Exceptions. Charles Barkley once did a segment where he demonstrated, with video, how Jordan’s head fake to spin away to fading jumper started with an obvious, hand completely under the ball, palm. There where a few nervous chuckles and you never heard of it again. Then a couple of years later the NBA finally decides to “crackdown” on it when people start to notice that you can only get away with it if you have a shoe named after you.