biggest nba thug now and all time?

The new thug of the NBA is Esteban Batista. He is a walking flagrant foul, he basically ended Lue's season, in practice!:roll:

[QUOTE=JohnnyBravo5]The new thug of the NBA is Esteban Batista. He is a walking flagrant foul, he basically ended Lue's season, in practice!:roll:[/QUOTE]

How did I know Bravo was gonna find a way to work Lue's name in (a thread about thugs no less).

You are one loyal muthafalka

[QUOTE=JtotheIzzo]How did I know Bravo was gonna find a way to work Lue's name in (a thread about thugs no less).

You are one loyal muthafalka[/QUOTE]

It had nothing to do with Lue jackazz...just relating a story about Esteban.

[QUOTE=JohnnyBravo5]It had nothing to do with Lue jackazz...just relating a story about Esteban.[/QUOTE]

You brought his name up again!!!:banana:

You must get like a bonus everytime you can get his name up on this message board.

[QUOTE=RainierBeachPoet]my original intent was to limit it to on court behavior

thug=a person whose primary role is to be physical and do "enforcement" duties for his team

to me, a thug is different from a dirty player (eg laimbeer); or an out of control action (artest in the stands); of any off court behavior (iverson); or any one time punch (k. washington)

i am a lifetime sonic fan-- danny fortson's main role was to enforce and play physical

but if i am to give a vote for a current player-- potapenko comes to mind

other all timers are maurice lucas, clifford ray, and wes unseld

oakley is a good pick too[/QUOTE]

But that was Kermit's role before he one timed Rudy. He was sent out to instigate contact on the star players of every team to throw thier games off. He was one scary dude.

AI is a thug, he is hard to the core. Rasheed wallace is a thug, he will pop you in the face and then laugh at you when/if you retaliate. Oakley is a thug. Rodman too, and Artest
of all time, that dude that broke rudy t's face. he hit him so hard, his face literally shattered, now that is a thug.

hahha I love that Kenyon picture.

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[QUOTE=KingofVaginville]Iverson isn't a thug in any way shape or form. He's just a wannabe!

Someone like Kenyon Martin or Bill Laimbeer will qualify as one.

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Now, that's what thuggish bullies do. Giving a fellow player a wedgie![/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE=RainierBeachPoet][SIZE=7][U][B]david[/B][/U] fu(king [B][U]stern[/U][/B] is the biggest thug in the nba[/SIZE][/QUOTE]


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David Stern / Kurt Rambis

Isaiah Rider should be in contention for biggest thug.

Robert Horry/Bruce Bowen

dennis rodman

and no mentions of rasheed?? lol that guy is a crazy thug:banana:

Former Boston Celtic of the late 50s and early 60s, Jim Loskotoff was on the roster strictly to be a thug on the court similar to the goon of hockey teams past. if a player got hot Auerbach in one of his psychological ploys would tell Loskotoff to go out and mug the player, he was a 6ft 5 gorila that looked the part, I mean he put the ugggg in ugly. He looked like that ruff neck thug in the Godfather 1, Luca Brazi, the Don's number one strong man.

I never saw it but I've heard old-timers say in Wilt's rookie year he was destroying Russell so Red sent in Loskotoff to ruff Wilt up a bit and after a hard foul Wilt picked him up by the chest with one hand and told him never to do that again, and he never did.

One of the most hard nose players who would never back down and who would have players bigger and heavier than him bounce off him like a rubber ball against a handball court wall was Paul Silas, what a rebounder, he was the key to the Walton led Trailbalzer's glory years, when Bill gets on a roll he will talk marvels about him. Paul also served as Lebron's father in the beginning.

One of the toughest guards built like a fireplug was no-nonsense Al Attles who was with both the Philly and SF Warriors before become a coach for the Golden State edition

The big money made by the players today have eased tensions between them, there's too much lovey-dovey going on before games among opposing players, they are too soft in attitude. The Lakers and the Knicks or Celtics or other rivals never fratenized in the past, there was genuine dislike, now both teams have dinner and party together before and after games.