Dec 05, 2012
On the surface, all basketball and boxing have in common is the letter “B.” Boxing is an individual sport in terminal decline, a sport once dominated by great champions and now run by shameless, rival promoters. Basketball is a team sport on the rise. Yet, boxing and basketball do share two crucial commonalities: a focus on individual talent and personality and an emphasis on the power of great rivalries to drive the sport forward.
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