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Can a defensive player hold an offensive player without the ball?

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Defense is Payton's battleground. Intense and menacing, the '95-96 NBA Defensive Player of the Year and steals leader (2.9/G) picked an opponent's pocket at least once in a remarkable 79 of 81 games, with five or more steals in ten of them.



"Pooh" emerged as one of the NBA's most promising young point guards in 1990 ... Led expansion Timberwolves in assists and finished second in steals behind Tyrone Corbin ... Three-time all-Pac 10 selection at UCLA ... Set conference record with 833 career assists ... Also set school record for steals with 182... Finished career ranked eighth on UCLA scoring list with 1,461 points.



Though "ordinary Joe" enrolled at Maryland on no one's roster of top recruits, he enters the NBA just two years later on everyone's list of potential All-Stars. The only other players besides Smith to win ACC Player of the Year honors as a sophomores did, in fact, become NBA All-Stars: Ralph Sampson and David Thompson.



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