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Charles Oakley
Maurice Lucas
Charles Oakley
Ime Udoka
The next thing you know, there were three Algerian players on him. Everyone was engaged in combat save me, if you can believe it. And lo and ehold... Ime! He was taking people out like in Mortal Kombat. Finish him! Incredible. I was so out of it as I had five guys I was fighting (oh yeah, the crowd jumped in as the fight spilled over to the court of the championship game of Senegal and Angola).
In the middle of the whole thing I heard Ime, literally in mid-swing of another opponent say,"Watch back, Gabe" and he calmly, I mean calmly, smeared a guy who, as I turned to see his warning, jumped from the stands with a chair to probably kill me or knock me out to where the crowd would have. I mean, Ime caught the guy in mid air with a fist and calmly continued his dispacthing of oncoming people. He and other guys (yes, me too) were whoopin' so many people the crowd backed up. True to the letter! But Ime had the most notches by far.
Kevin Durant
Ah , I remember this story. Was this legit? Sounds like something out of the movie Gladiator lol
MVPierce imho, dude came back in a wheelchair during the 08' finals and led his team to a championship, not to say dude once suffered 11 stabbing wounds yet only missed half the season, while "God" quit the season midway with a feigned injury after playing only 6 games
J.J. Barea
This conversation is boring. I don't care who the "toughest" players were...I care who were the best and most skilled.
Cedric Ceballos
Oakley was smacking s like it was his duty. So I'd go with him.
Bill Cartwright disagrees.
I'm going with toughest as in who took the most punishment, and that's Allen Iverson.
Malone- Just a mean player... Butkus mean...
Shaq- Got hammered every play & brushed it off...
Kobe- Stubborn tough...
Wilt- Gentle Giant If he threw his weight around like Shaq & Malone he would have been banned
Who ever put MJ as the toughest is a re . You don't take 2 years off and play baseball and love golf is not tough in my book.
Regardless, I'd go with Buck Williams, Oakley, Iverson, Ron Ron, Laimbeer, Rodman, and AC Green. Lol
I don't belive that Rodman should be on the list...When players like Malone kicked his ass Rodman would just quit...He would do something dirty to get kicked out of the game...
Bill Russell and Bill Lambier. When you go to the hoop you'll pay.
Easy ..Jim Loscutoff .. the man cut Chamberlain in half
Kermit Washington
The most important criteria for a correct answer is that the players in question must be:
A) White American
B) Played in the early 90s or prior
C) Both
Many of these players were "tough" to negate their lack of talent/athleticism, tbh..their "hustle" and "grittiness" gave them value, or at least the perception of being valuable, despite not having skills and athleticism..
Just because the NBA allowed players to clothesline on defense and play "tougher" in the 80's and early 90's does not cons ute toughness of those that took advantage of that rules set, or rather lack thereof.
OP didn't say the dirtiest. He said toughest. -5 points son
Isiah THomas was a tough mofo
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