If your team’s managed to make it all the way to the conference finals, it’s no doubt due at least in part to consistently finding the slightest of strategic advantages—in the X's and O's, sure, but in the game’s more extracurricular domains as well.
Trash-talking, veiled media swipes, whatever.
And that’s great, to a point—and until that point finds you spouting off in public about it.
And so, without any further ado, please welcome our old friend, Lance Stephenson, shooting guard and psychological bon vivant of the Indiana Pacers:
Let’s get one thing out of the way first: The game of basketball is, by its very nature, designed to take a heavy toll on one’s body, particularly at as sustained a level as embodied by Miami Heat’s All-Star shooting guard.
Whether players want to admit it or not, the very act of trying to “destroy” or “burn” one’s opponent is part and parcel with compromising their physical stability.
You just don’t often see players, like, outwardly ...
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Article written by Jim Cavan