Fansided

Every NBA team’s greatest enforcer of all time

By Luke Anton

LOS ANGELES - 1987: Bill Laimbeer #40 of the Detroit Pistons looks on during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, California in the 1987-1988 NBA season. (Photo by Rick Stewart/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES - 1987: Bill Laimbeer #40 of the Detroit Pistons looks on during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers at the Great Western Forum in Los Angeles, California in the 1987-1988 NBA season. (Photo by Rick Stewart/Getty Images) /
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Sacramento Kings — Scot Pollard

As the present-day Sacramento Kings are possibly (and quite likely) headed toward an NBA record 16 consecutive seasons of missing the playoffs, a younger generation of NBA fans probably have a hard time believing that the early 2000s Kings were really good. So good, in fact, that they led the league with 61 wins in 2002 and were a few suspect calls away from beating Shaq and Kobe’s dynastic Lakers in Game 7 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals. The enforcer for those good Kings teams was Scot Pollard.

As soon as Pollard checked into the game, things got chippier. Known for his seemingly endless amount of looks and hairdos — they called him Samurai Scot — you never knew which Pollard was going to show up to the game. Whether it was with frosted tips, mutton chops, a fu manchu, a ponytail, a mohawk or a man-bun, whichever Pollard it was, you could always count on him to play tough and never back down from anybody. Not even Shaq! Most people would shake in their boots at just the thought of taking on Shaq in his prime, but Scot Pollard put on his frosted tips and clocked into work like it was his job. Because it was.

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