Top 5 dirtiest NBA Players ever and why

[rascal]

I'll go out on a limb and say that Bruce wasn't as dirty as most of the other players listed here. I don't think anything he ever did was proven intentional, and due to him playing such good defense on the perimeter, foots were landed on.

The Amare thing was the only play I ever questioned. The rest seemed fabricated by pussy Allen, VC, and the suns. I never heard Kobe complaining.

top 5?
hard to say. Mailman is easily number one though. No one else come close to him imo.

Bowen was dirty. Undercutting players is dirty.

[Koolaid_Man]

I don't have a problem with anyone that put Malone as the dirtiest, or one of the dirtiest players of all-time. , I'd list him in the top 5...BUT...do not use the elbow against Zeke as an example of his dirty play. There were two separate occasions in that game where Stockton received cheap shots from Piston bigs before the elbow to Thomas. Malone spoke before the game about how the Jazz had to match Detroit's bullying to have any shot of beating them, so Malone saw the opportunity and leveled Isiah. At that time in basketball, he had it coming.

I also laugh when Isiah himself complains about the hit because he was the ring leader in so many other hits. The one time he gets it he starts crying about it. A sign of the ultimate bully.

The only reason Malone hit Zeke was because Zeke was ing up Stockton's world...it's well known man don't try to rewrite history Utah boy...Stockton couldn't with Isiah... not ever not anytime and Malone just got fed up and decided to slow Isiah down...

and even as you say if Stockton took a few hard fouls there's nothing to justify this hit on an all-time great...that could have put an eye or or even killed him...eternally you and Karl Malone... ok sir...

[Brazil]

Malone
Laimbeer
Bynum
Miller
Bowen

thats a solid 5

[ohmwrecker]

1 Bill Laimbeer
2 Karl Malone
3 Dennis Rodman
4 John Stockton
5 Bruce Bowen

Special consideration to Kermit Washington for almost killing Rudy T.

[Koolaid_Man]

1 Bill Laimbeer
2 Karl Malone
3 Dennis Rodman
4 John Stockton
5 Bruce Bowen

Special consideration to Kermit Washington for almost killing Rudy T.

Kermit's hit wasn't dirty it was just a straight up punch to the face...

[Koolaid_Man]

Malone
Laimbeer
Bynum
Miller
Bowen

thats a solid 5

Bynum isn't dirty...he had a few bad plays but unless he does this more often it's too early to say....I think he was trying to show his manhood trying to show he'd go out fighting like they did in the 80's but it wasn't received to well...


Magic, Kobe, Barkley and many others have done far worse than Bynum's hit on JJ...so they have no room....

[ohmwrecker]

Kermit's hit wasn't dirty it was just a straight up punch to the face...

Rudy T. wasn't fighting. Kermit sucker punched him as hard as he possibly could. Tomjanovich was trying to break up the fight between Jabaar and Benson.

I don't really expect you to know your history though.

[Koolaid_Man]

Rudy T. wasn't fighting. Kermit sucker punched him as hard as he possibly could. Tomjanovich was trying to break up the fight between Jabaar and Benson.

I don't really expect you to know your history though.

From what I hear it was a fight...Rudy erroneously ran up like a Russian cowboy and

BLAAAAAMMMMM!!!!

Holy Batman....

[dunkman]

Zeke was better than Stock, but it's not an excuse. Malone got called a "coward" by 'Nique for beating a smaller player, but mean as he was, never took a cheap shot on him too.

[lefty]

Kareem was a dirty punkass

[Monostradamus]

I'll go out on a limb and say that Bruce wasn't as dirty as most of the other players listed here. I don't think anything he ever did was proven intentional, and due to him playing such good defense on the perimeter, foots were landed on.

[Calispursfan11]

Surprised no one has mentioned Najera or Raja Bell.

[Daddy_Of_All_Trolls]

Probably most of you never heard of the story where Tree Rollins of the Atlanta Hawks almost bit Danny Ainge of the Celtics finger off in a playoff game.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba-122967
Strangest NBA injury of all time: 'Tree Bites Man'

By J.E. Skeets

Sports Illustrated's Ian Thomsen posted a fantastic article on Friday about NBA injuries, which included his All-Injured Teams, great investigative work into The Raptor mascot's long list of bumps and bruises, and this classic NBA injury story:

Danny Ainge was the victim of the weirdest injury that I can remember in the NBA. In a 1983 first-round playoff game with Atlanta, Ainge tried to tackle Tree Rollins. Ainge shrieked in pain from the ensuing tangled pile of bodies.
"We got into a little scuffle out on the court by the foul line and he almost bit my finger off,'' Ainge said. "He bit it all the way through. I had to get two s ches.''
He raised his right hand to reveal the scar on his middle finger.
"Usually, you don't put s ches on a human bite,'' he said. "But just to keep everything in there together, they had to put a couple of s ches in there.''
Did he realize that someone was biting him?
"Oh, yeah, I knew it was happening,'' he said. "Oh, yeah.''
The next day, the Boston Herald published one of the great headlines: "Tree Bites Man.''

It's a shame Tree didn't bite Larry Bird, too.

[ChuckD]

1. Ricky Mahorn
2-5 4 other dudes

Ricky Mahorn was thought of as the dirtiest player when he played, which was during the dirtiest time in the NBA, the pre Bad Boys to the Bad Boys era.

[Koolaid_Man]

Probably most of you never heard of the story where Tree Rollins of the Atlanta Hawks almost bit Danny Ainge of the Celtics finger off in a playoff game.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/bal...urn=nba-122967
Strangest NBA injury of all time: 'Tree Bites Man'

By J.E. Skeets

Sports Illustrated's Ian Thomsen posted a fantastic article on Friday about NBA injuries, which included his All-Injured Teams, great investigative work into The Raptor mascot's long list of bumps and bruises, and this classic NBA injury story:

Danny Ainge was the victim of the weirdest injury that I can remember in the NBA. In a 1983 first-round playoff game with Atlanta, Ainge tried to tackle Tree Rollins. Ainge shrieked in pain from the ensuing tangled pile of bodies.
"We got into a little scuffle out on the court by the foul line and he almost bit my finger off,'' Ainge said. "He bit it all the way through. I had to get two s ches.''
He raised his right hand to reveal the scar on his middle finger.
"Usually, you don't put s ches on a human bite,'' he said. "But just to keep everything in there together, they had to put a couple of s ches in there.''
Did he realize that someone was biting him?
"Oh, yeah, I knew it was happening,'' he said. "Oh, yeah.''
The next day, the Boston Herald published one of the great headlines: "Tree Bites Man.''

It's a shame Tree didn't bite Larry Bird, too.

I appreciate this story but you don't mess with a players junk....Reggie Evans wins...

[Koolaid_Man]

Chis Paul once punched a guy in the as well...lol @BR Hornet's favorite player....

[Texas_Ranger]

CP3 is also a .

[Calispursfan11]

CP3 is also a .

Isn't that da troof!