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Not exactly a statistic, but this site was a Digg top story a few weeks ago. It's a number of clips (which if you're a Spurs fan I'm sure you've already seen them) that show Bowen at work. In fairness, I agree outright that it's easy to vilify a person by taking select clips and putting them online. I'm sure everyone's foot has ended up in the wrong spot one time or another. But personally I do think Bowen does it on purpose, and does it an excessive amount of time. When he's not playing dirty, he really is a great defensivemen. That I can't take away from him, but placing your foot under a guy whose shooting a jumper? Come on. I'd rather see him just knee someone.

Cheers,

Munk

The allegation was made that multiple ankle injuries were intentionally caused by Bowen this past season. In the clip where Anthony Parker hurt his ankle, Bruce looks to me like he is moving away from Parker as Parker was coming down.
Anyway, last night I saw James throw an elbow into the face of Manu (no foul called), and in the previous game Pavlovic hurled himself into into Tony Parker while Tony was up in the air defenseless (foul called). Parker was shaken up and did sustain a back/hip injury which fortunately only briefly affected his play. In all probability both of those fouls were not intentional. Basketball is a contact sport and injuries happen. With all the drives into the paint that Lebron makes, I am sure you could put clips together of him hitting other players and make a case--but I wouldn't buy it and I am not sold on Bowen being dirty either.
It was said here that Bowen has caused multiple ankle injuries this year, and I want to see the data that supports that.