After watching the first two days of the NBA playoffs, I notice teams do not shake hands after the game; that’s cool. But during the regular season it’s different. At the final buzzer players are searching each other out and hugging and telling each other to ‘call me’. New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils on the post-game handshake via the New York Times.
Despite the sweaty, stinky gloves that players love to mush in opponents’ faces, and other crude behavior, the players almost always shake hands at the end of a series. In the 1996 Western Conference finals, Colorado’s Claude Lemieux battered the face of Detroit’s Kris Draper during a six-game victory. After the usual handshake line, Detroit’s Dino Ciccarelli more or less said of Lemieux, I can’t believe I shook the guy’s dastardly hand.
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