A poll at Hoops Hype has now been up long enough to offer a meaningful list of the NBA’s 15 dirtiest players. As voted by readers, the dirtiest is Matt Barnes, followed by Matthew Dellavedova. While the entire list has merit (otherwise I wouldn’t bring it to your attention), I got to wondering who the Toronto Raptors’ dirtiest player is. And that got me to musing whether having a player detested enough to join a list like this is entirely a bad thing.
[Update: I wrote this yesterday, and woke up to learn of some serious misbehaviour by Barnes last night.