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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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Draymond Green
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Golden State Warriors — Draymond Green

The NBA enforcer is supposed to be extinct. There is definitely a general consensus that there are no enforcers left in today’s game. However, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, Exhibit A is one Draymond Green.

If a completely undersized 6-foot-6 and 230-pound 2nd-round draft pick who used his resilient passion and his audacious and assertive ideology to become the defensive anchor and backbone for a modern-day dynasty, and was such a nuisance that he got suspended from the single most important game of his life in the 2016 Finals for kicking too many people in the nuts — if all of that doesn’t equate to an enforcer, then keep on hanging out at Weenie Hut Jr.’s while the real hoop heads discuss ball.

There is no doubt that the game has changed and evolved. But Draymond’s relentless and ubiquitous style of play proves that it is still possible to be an enforcer in the NBA today. Is it more difficult to do given the current nature of the game? For sure. Yet Draymond has pulled it off with exceptional success.

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