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The series centers on Dr. Danielle "Dani" Santino, a tough Long Island divorcee who, in order to make ends meet, gets a job as a therapist for a professional football team. Her career begins to take off when athletes, musicians, politicians and other celebrities start to request her tough love therapy. She must learn to balance her new career with being a single mother.
Not to be confused with the movie ''[[Necessary Roughness (
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* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: TK to Ray J.
** Matt for the Hawks players, but especially TK.
* [[Big Man
* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Jeanette.
* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Lindsey.
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* [[Department of Child Disservices]]: "Spinning Out", where a social worker comes to evaluate Dani's fitness to have full custody of her children, and whether her patients (especially TK) are having an adverse effect on the kids. Subverted in that the social worker isn't villified, TK proves in later episodes to be a harmful influence on Ray J and Lindsey, and Dani has to leave her kids in the middle of the night to bail TK out and it's only through Nico's influence that the social worker never finds out.
* [[Divorce Assets Conflict]]: Ongoing over the first season, but comes to a head in "Spinning Out" and "Dream On".
* [[Down to
* [[The Dreaded]]: Phil Kirkman is never named within the Hawks facility, always referred to by Coach, Nico, and Matt as "You Know Who".
* [[Drop in Character]]: Dani's friends Jeanette (who shows up often, but isn't a recurring character) and Margot (who has been seen twice), as well as her mother, Angela.
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* [[Hot Scoop]]: Vivica Stevens.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: Some of the episode titles have this going on. "Anchor Management"? "A Wing and a Player"?
* [[Jerk
* [[Ladykiller in Love]]: Terrence reaches it with Vivica, when he wants to [[Unusual Euphemism|go grocery shopping]] with her. As it turns out, going grocery shopping is a euphemism... for simply spending time doing mundane things with Vivica.
* [[The Loins Sleep Tonight]]: TK tries to sleep with a bimbo after breaking up with Vivica, and can't get it up.
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* [[Tsundere]]: Dani is a Type B; the "tsun-tsun" side is triggered by her ex-husband, though not, curiously, by any of her [[Love Interests]]. Then again, her ex-husband cheated on Dani with a venerable train of women so the anger might be justified just a little. Also, she is no longer in love with her ex since she found out he was cheating on her.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: According to Matt, if you want to "go grocery shopping" with a woman, you're in love with her. TK blurts it out to Vivica.
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* [[Will Not Tell a Lie]]: Nico tells Dani that he does not lie. While we never see him tell a lie, most of the things about him are a [[Shrouded in Myth|mystery]] and he tends to use euphemisms when talking about what he does as the team's "fixer".
** The subject of "Goal Line" regarding whether he will lie about his affair with Gabrielle Pittman. He eventually tells the truth, informing Pittman's lawyer that if Pittman wants to know who Gabrielle's been sleeping with, he can call Nico.
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