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Is Pau Gasol Really ‘Soft’? It Depends Who You Ask

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↵It’s unfair to call basketball players “soft”, The term is so vague that it essentially becomes an unfair indictment of a player’s masculinity, according to The Good Men Project. It lowers the discourse to a basic, over-simplified level that turns basketball into one, big Miller Lite commercial.

↵On the other hand, there’s this, a slightly less eloquent reaction from Snoop Dogg.

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↵The truth about Pau Gasol and “soft” players, in general? Somewhere in between, I think.

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