When did basketball stop becoming a contact sport?

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03-01-2025, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

Wilt as the GOAT is definitely a fair argument to make. Another guy I don't hear mentioned enough is George Mikan. Also completely dominant in his time.

I haven't really followed basketball much since my Braves left Buffalo. Wilt would be my all time greatest player also. Even into the mid 1980s there were always rumors that some NBA team was trying to entice him out of retirement.

As a head coach in San Diego of the ABA in 1973-74 he was not very good. An early strategy was having his players foul an opponent frequently to make them "earn" their points at the free throw line. They got killed. He must have thought all of the other players were terrible free-throw shooters like himself.

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