i agree. I was so excited for him when he came into the league cuz I though I would be able to witness (lol) something special like jordan was in the nineties before I was watching bball
dirk nowitzki, yao ming, pao gasol, marc gasol, goran dragic, yi jianlian, steve nash, jan vesely, hedo turkoglu, andrei kirilenko, mehmet okur, etc. etc.
no. contact is also allowed in basketball it's not like they will call a foul on you for just bumping a guy. There are certain kinds of contact that are illegal in bball just like in soccer