re: Can someone explain to me the significance of hand checking in the NBA?

I’m a big proponent of Bird being able to wreck fools in this era.

But he’d make Lebron look dumb?



Also can we get back to what hand checking influenced?

Like we got awesome players now who can’t defend the pnr or can’t shoot quite enough to play late in games or against bad matchups.

Was that a thing for the hand check too?

Like Aw man, so and so is real nice(we’ll call them Gilbert) but the hand checking has picked up in the playoffs and Gilbert here can’t get minutes in the 4th quarter.

For my entire life I’ve heard that guys today could not make it in the days of hand checking. Where the shite did that come from?