How Tyler Hansbrough went from NCAA legend to playing in China
Posted Apr 3, 2019
The most accomplished college basketball player of his generation has a theory on why his NBA career fizzled more quickly than he expected. Tyler Hansbrough considers himself a casualty of the NBA’s pace-and-space revolution, a throwback power forward in an era when the NBA prefers mobile, athletic big men capable of shooting threes and defending away from the basket.
(Yahoo! Sports)
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