More questions followed. Jalen Brunson backed his center, arguing that a new ball may be orange but a good ball, one that’s used and worn in, is brown. Hartenstein agreed. So I went back to Robinson. If a basketball is brown, not orange, then I needed analysis from the expert himself on why the leather turned darker. What I received was a lesson about NBA hygiene that, if the accusations are true, could make Robinson the Mike Fiers of the NBA. “It’s got dirt and bacteria,” he said. “People here don’t wash their hands. There’s a few people in this league that wash their hands. A few of them. But I can. I do. I wash my hands.” Source: Fred Katz @ The Athletic
