He was a reserve guard for the Georgetown Hoyas who played only 50 minutes in the 1995-96 season. In basketball, where talent eventually overrides everything else, victory belongs to the appropriators more than the innovators.
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Liza Minnelli had the first crack at "New York, New York," but Frank Sinatra's version is the one you mostly hear played at Yankees and Knicks games. But sometimes it's better to perfect things than do them first. It's not that Abdul-Jabbar created the skyhook. « Hook looks | Sweet Lew | Milwaukee's best | Wilt tilt | Dynamic duos | Kareem of the crop » His left leg is straight, the right knee comes up, the left arm extends out, the right arm rises up with the ball and finally the wrist flicks to add the backspin, the seams rotating as the ball arcs to the hoop and drops through the net. I've seen that rhythmic skyhook so many times it's burned in my head like an image left on a computer screen too long. In order to make something so simple seem so distinctive it has to be done over and over again, through solitary repetition and on stage when everyone's watching.
It can be as simple as a single word: Marv Albert's "Yes!" It can be a familiar instrument like B.B. It can be an article of clothing, such as Abraham Lincoln's stovepipe hat or Tiger Woods' red Sunday shirts. They have a signature, an indelible stamp that signifies exactly who they are. The greatest of the great don't just have a style. Magic Johnson smiling James Worthy soaring for a dunk, the ball held straight above his head like the Statue of Liberty's torch Michael Jordan in the original Air Jordan poster, captured mid-flight, his arms and legs spread wide in a pose that became the logo worn on millions of high-tops. In retrospect, my wall was covered with athletes doing what defined them. The poster hung above my bedroom dresser, a painting lifelike in its details but abstract in concept, the head and shoulders of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar leaning to the left as he tossed a hook shot against a backdrop of a cloud-spotted sky.
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