The Pearl Changed the Game

2007/12/02 03:30:30 @NBA.com: News

In the WASHINGTON POST, Mike Wise writes "In his autobiography 'Giant Steps,' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recounted the day an all-star team from Philadelphia came to claim the Rucker League crown. He spoke of a player who had moves the gangly teen never had seen, vividly describing the two busloads of worshipers who came to see him play. Harlem, circa 1966, and the only sound was a "continuous wail that seemed to be coming from everywhere.”
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