USA Today<\/a>).<\/p>\n“Everybody is making a big thing out of it because it was Nate Robinson. But people get knocked out in the boxing gym every day. They\u2019re a part of that sport. He chose to participate in that sport. He just came up on the wrong end of it. I watch boxing so much that I don\u2019t view it the same way everybody else does because I know that\u2019s part of the fight game.”<\/p>\n
Do you agree with Damian Lillard that fans should give Nate Robinson more credit for stepping into the ring despite being brutally knocked out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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