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Best of the 00s: NBA Feud of the Decade
Written by Jeff Fox   
Sunday, 03 January 2010 11:24

With a new decade upon us, the World Wide Web has been inundated with NBA Best of the Decade lists.  Not to be left out, The Hoops Manifesto wants to share its Best of - with a twist.  Next up - NBA Feud of the Decade.

It is no great secret why the world has a love affair with sports.  Sure, watching the world's best athletes perform feats us mere mortals can only dream of does possess a large aesthetic quality to it, but the real reason sports holds our interest is the real-life drama that itpresents to us.  There's winners and losers, heroes and villains, struggles between good and evil, and it is all played out in public for all to see.  But to make sports really compelling, it helps to have a good old fashioned feud.  Lakers-Celtics, Shaq-Kobe, you get the idea.  So in that vein, The Hoops Manifesto awards its NBA Feud of the Decade award to....... Charles Oakley and Tyrone Hill.

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This is by far my favourite sports feud of all-time.  Apparently in the summer of 2000, Hill lost $54000 to Oakley in a dice game.  Yes, a dice game (I told you this was a fantastic feud!).  By the time the 2000/01 season kicked off, Hill still hadn't paid Oakley the debt, so things started jumping off.  The Oak tracked his adversary down before a preseason Raptors-Sixers game and slapped Hill in the mouth, getting himself suspended and fined.  Then, later in the season during a pregame shootaround Oakley started firing basketballs at Hill, hitting him in the face with one.  Eventually Hill paid his debt, prompting Oakley to give this magnificiant quote to the media about it: "A gentleman pays his debt within a week or two".  Sounds like Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton should have paid attention to this advice.   

Runner up: Kobe vs Shaq.

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Previous awards: Most Ridiculous Tattoo(s), Best Mustache, There Is An "I" In Team. 

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