Thomas always sported that babyface mug, but he was known either as a scrapper (by Detroit fans) or a slapper (by opponents). #3 Matthew Dellavedova. Kevin Garnett could easily be on top of this list. In 2012, peers voted Evans the dirtiest player in the league. Soon both teams got involved in an all-out brawl. There's legal jockeying for position and there's illegal jockeying for position and a lot of times it's illegal with Howard. Andrew Bogut believes that he gets a bad rep for being a dirty player because he is an international player. He is an extremely active, energetic player and a lot of times that frenetic nature of his play is misconstrued as "dirty" play. Dikembe Mutombo might be one of the nicest, most gregarious players in the league's history when the game wasn't going on, but the man was utterly reckless with his elbows. Patrick Beverley has been ejected for this push on Chris Paul pic.twitter.com/1XdeirFsv8. He's a controlled dirty player but he's dirty. . JOS LUIS MARTNEZ. Unlike other players, Charles Oakley did very little to hide his ill intentions on the basketball court. If Paul Pierce ever had to guard Paul Pierce in the Fringe version of the playoffs, the guys who mop the floor would get so frustrated they'd throw down their mops and storm away. Noah plays extremely hard and you could even make the case that he plays harder than anyone else in the league. The omission of earlier players is because it's just hard to know who should and shouldn't have been included. As a sophomore, he got busted for tripping multiple players. That single incident makes a lot of people call Washington one of the dirtiest players in NBA history, but that incident wasn't part of a play, and there's nothing to suggest that apart from that instance he was a dirty player. Before Anderson Varejao, before Joakim Noah and before Kevin Garnett there was Dennis Rodman, the original high energy, high intensity big man. He also led the NBA in flagrant fouls in both 2011-12 and 2012-13, and was second in that category last season. He's certainly not the gentleman on the basketball court that his father was on the tennis court. Unlike today, the NBA was less strict in the 90s and 80s and thus many of the antics used by the Detroit Pistons often went unpunished. He wasn't too subtle about it either which is why he is the NBA's all-time leader in technical fouls with 304. Soon multiple players were in the stands and things got ugly. February 14th, 2021 at 3:32 PM ^ Draymond Green in college wasn't all that dirty if memory serves me right; he wasn't some beloved player but he was reasonably skilled and won NPOY largely free of a reputation.
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