NEW YORK – Shakur Stevenson shook his head at the question. What kind of work do you do to maintain your hands, a reporter asked through a Zoom call last week. “What don’t I do?” Stevenson responded, before rattling off a few. There are rubber balls for hand strengthening. An Xtensor, a webbed resistance glove, for stability and grip. During training camps a therapist will drop in with a machine to electronically stimulate the blood flow. In between there are regular dips into rice bowls and ice buckets.
“It’s a lot, bro,” Stevenson says. “I ain’t going to lie, it’s a long process.”
