Comments on: Baller of the Day: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar http://ballerblogger.com/2008/09/18/baller-of-the-day-kareem-abdul-jabbar/ NBA blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 05:58:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Trev Smith http://ballerblogger.com/2008/09/18/baller-of-the-day-kareem-abdul-jabbar/comment-page-1/#comment-1955 Trev Smith Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:56:58 +0000 http://ballerblogger.com/?p=505#comment-1955 Way back when he was still Lewis Alcindor, this man was probably the best high school player ever (better even than LeBron at that age). In university, the powers that be outlawed dunking because of how dominant he would have been in the paint; thus he invents the Sky-Hook, a shot that actually made him more unstoppable. The story that best sums up his dominance in his prime: when he attended UCLA, freshman could not play Varsity. At the end of the year, the Freshman team played the Varsity. That season, UCLA's Varsity squad had won the NCAA tournament. Yet they lost to Kareem and the Freshman squad...he was that good. Way back when he was still Lewis Alcindor, this man was probably the best high school player ever (better even than LeBron at that age).

In university, the powers that be outlawed dunking because of how dominant he would have been in the paint; thus he invents the Sky-Hook, a shot that actually made him more unstoppable.

The story that best sums up his dominance in his prime: when he attended UCLA, freshman could not play Varsity. At the end of the year, the Freshman team played the Varsity. That season, UCLA’s Varsity squad had won the NCAA tournament. Yet they lost to Kareem and the Freshman squad…he was that good.

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