On Friday, we asked you to vote on the scrappiest players in the NBA. More 11,000 of you(in New Jersey they round up and call that a "sellout") did.
As of 11:09 AM ET this morning (when, I arbitrarily decided to count the final tallies) the winners were as follows:
Joakim Noah, Chicago Bulls
Not only does he play his freaking brains out, and embody just about everything this contest is about, but he also does all that with prominent hair, on a prominent team. That makes him one hell of an obvious scrapper, and the guy who led the voting from the very beginning.Read Full Article »
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