I was always most impressed by your foot work when i watched you play. You practised this foot work like crazy for hours and hours in seventh and eighth grade. The reasonat young kids to day don't learn how to shoot hookshots is because everybody is so enamored with the three point shot. A lot of people now are deteriorate into a three point shooting contest. It's not hard to put the package together, but you have to want to put it together. I think it has to do with lato febero just as much as they wants as much as an effort for their shots. So indeed, do you blame the economic incentives behind the basketball culture? Or
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on segregation, Islam, Harlem vs. LA, Earl Manigault, jazz, fighting Bruce Lee, Kareem’s conservatism, dancing with Thelonious Monk, and why no one today can shoot a skyhook.
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