![]() Could you imagine those guys without hand-checking? Just double the numbers.” They were real men, they had two hands on ‘em and they still had incredible numbers. Guys like ‘Ice,’ Julius, Rick Barry, Oscar, they played when dinosaurs roamed the earth. “The difference is, hand-checking is a man’s game,” Drexler said during Sunday’s BIG3 player draft. However, before 1994, hand-checking was a fully acceptable form of defense, and according to Drexler and “The Iceman," the rules prohibiting hand-checking has made today’s players soft. ![]() Hand-checking, today, is defined as illegally defending a player by using one or both of your hands or arms to impede the movement of an offensive player. NBA legends George Gervin and Clyde Drexler believe they would have been even more potent playing in today’s NBA with the often-debated hand-checking rule. ![]()
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