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- How Pacers' Hibbert emerged to anchor NBA's best defense (from Lee Jenkins, Sports Illustrated)
" Vogel explained to Hibbert the NBA's principle of verticality, which allows a defender to jump straight up and absorb contact from a ballhandler, as long as he establishes a legal defensive position before leaving the ground and remains vertical in the air…