Tip-Off Timer: Few Could Handle Pressure Like Nick Van Exel

by Matt Steinmetz

Filed under: Lakers, Warriors

Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Sunday, there are 37 days remaining.



Nick Van Exel might be most remembered for his infamous shoving of official Ron Garretson during a game in 1996, while he was a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, who had selected Van Exel with the 37th pick of the 1993 draft.



It was a momentary bad decision and in many ways it came to define Van Exel, who was ultra-competitive and always played with a chip on his shoulder. But his career apart from that can stand on its own, and when it does, it can measure up to many of the better point guards who came down the pike.

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