In the wake of the Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard admitted to using the banned "Stickum" spray on his hands to help with grip in an NBA match against the Atlanta Hawks, we look at five other instances where sportspeople have taken the rules to the
The referees talk, decide there is a foreign substance on the ball, and then proceed to warn both benches that nobody can go Lester Hayes here — stickum is illegal in the NBA. I'll let Chris Vivlamore of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tell the story
The Hawks build a love nest for "Swipe Right Night." The Knicks' Kevin Seraphin inadvertently trucked over a kid. Apparently Dwight Howard has been using Stickum during games for years, without knowing it was illegal, until he was caught on Saturday.
He had so much stickum on him he applied it with a stick and the balls were often unusable when he touched them because the quarterback couldn't get them out of his hand when he threw them. They stuck to his hands. That's when they outlawed stickum.
As long we understand I'm not negotiating, the answer is yes. And I don't think that's even debatable. These guys are enormously undervalued, and I hope that that's not a secret, because it's certainly the truth. Basketball players are the most