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Tim Duncan and David Robinson, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale, Ralph Simpson and Hakeem Olajuwon, and… Jaxson Hayes and Steven Adams?
The NBA has seen plenty of legendary big man duos in its history, but the key word there is the past participle seen. The age of putting together two bruising bigs has been over for some time now, but Stan Van Gundy recently re-introduced it to an extent as a wrinkle in the New Orleans Pelicans’ recent lineups.
Over the last few weeks and as recently as the loss to the Brooklyn Nets, the Pels’ head coach has experimented at times with playing two of his bigs together.