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Re: Most talented forward ever?
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Originally Posted by 23isback
Why was he banned?
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If I remember right, when he was in HS, his mom (who was both blind and unmarried when that meant a lot more) took up with a professional gambler and the NCAA/NBA was still really sensitive about gambling because of the big game fixing scandals so they banned Hawkins on the basis of association and the potential for game fixing without any more proof than that. He eventually won a lawsuit forcing the NBA to let him back in but, as written earlier, that was 8 years and a potentially career ending knee injury later.
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