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The NBA Is Full of Thugs (Not)

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An absolutely brilliant article. So brilliant, in fact, that it deserves its own fanshot. Earlier I wrote about narratives influencing who is and is not a "star," and I think it's pretty clear that certain nasty assumptions (and let's not dance around the issue: it's racist bullshit, predominately) influence how the media writes about NBA "thuggery."