good ol discovery channel had a program the other day on the science of sport. They had sprinters wear tight clothing this researchers reduces the rate of injury. It was call procreception or something close. Well the brain according to them when fatigue recives scrambled signals as to what you body is doing. The tights renforces you bodies sigals or reference points of what that body part is doing during fatigue. Anyone wanna elaborate. Michael Jordan wears his NC tights every game right. That's why he had so much more bodily control and coordination during waining moments or the game. Iverson has that full length arm deal. And Kobe had the little blue knee wrap deal.