Kareem didnt only utilize one offensive manuver during any stage of his storied career ,during his prime athletic years he was a multifaceted , offensive juggernaut, from 15 foot jump shots , post up turnaround jumpers ,cross over ,leaving defenders standing like they were stuck in quick sand ,post up reverse spin moves ,end resulting with dunks ,beating opposing defenders down court for fast break dunks ,bank shots jumpers galore ,google kareem prime yrs 1970-76 and witness his incredible artistry. The nba and sports media imprinted the vision into the mind of folks that kareem possessed merely a skyhook as a weapon by only showing the montage of him using the skyhook on magazines ,commercials etc which ironically did a disservice to Kareem Abdul Jabbars legacy because it erased / ignored his complete offensive package . In order for him to be in position to actually utilize his patent skyhook ,he had to incorporate alternate weapons to be a counter manuver when individual and multiple defenders attempted to take the skyhook weapon away . To suggests he was only a skyhook would be like stating Michael Jordan and shaq were only using dunks . Kareem Abdul Jabbar was a magnificent athlete who could deplore varous offensive skill sets to offset defenses who's tactical scheme was to minimize the skyhook .
He was also a freakishly good passer, and he had other moves besides his sky hook. On the Mount Rushmore of big men. Arguably the best of them. More importantly, a truly thoughtful and caring human being.
I have one issue with this report. Calling the sky-hook „simple“ misrepresents how much skill and training this shot required. How difficult it is to master. You need good positioning, excellent footwork, you need to do it with both hands to be effective. There is a reason why no one else used it as their staple and money shot. It is freaking hard.
What? He became an awful, violent human being ever since he converted to Islam. Have you seen him speak? Maybe you meant to say Magic? Magic was always incredible.
Even more incredible is that he did a full four years of college (freshman team, as required by the NCAA in those days and then 3 years of varsity) before his 20-year career in the NBA! After graduating from UCLA in 1969, he then played in the NBA from 1969 until 1989. He won an NBA Finals MVP in 1985, at the age of 38! He was a winner at every level of basketball. His high school team was 79-2 during Kareem's tenure on the team. At UCLA, his freshman squad beat the two-time defending national champion varsity team by 15 points in the annual freshman vs. varsity pre-season game. The UCLA Freshmen went 21-0 that year. The next year, Kareem's first year on the varsity team, he scored 56 points and grabbed 21 rebounds in his first varsity game. His college record was 88-2, and Kareem's 3-year varsity team experience at UCLA resulted in three national championships. He was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four each of those years, as well as National College Player of the Year each of the three years he played varsity. So, from high school through college, Abdul-Jabbar was 188-4 before he suited up for an NBA game. His NBA career speaks for itself, with 6 NBA Championships, 2 Finals MVPs, 6 regular season MVPs, and 19 all-star appearances. He was All-NBA 15 times, and All-NBA-Defensive 11 times. College basketball made it against the rules to dunk the basketball after his first year on the varsity squad, a rule change that was a transparent attempt to try to compensate for his dominance of the game. Without making a three-point shot, he was the record holder for total points scored in the NBA for over 30 years. I would like for someone to tell me, with a straight face, why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is never part of any serious conversation about the G.O.A.T. in the NBA.
I'm now 64yrs old and my first shot I learned how to shoot was a😢 sky hook rather inside or out side, other guys I grew up with couldn't understand how this was possible but I did it from about age 9 to 13 or 14 when my jump shot first developed.Kareem was the reason for my shooting a hook shot when I was a boy, however know one remembers it from the many battles on the Basketball court in baltimore maryland on the school yard located Hoffman and Kenhill street on the east side. However at 50yrs old I played my last game under the whistle and my last shot made was a skyhook.
Your documentaries are so underrated! I haven't even finished watching the video but based on your other documentaries and what I've seen, this is gonna be just as fire 🔥🔥🔥
You don't watch much old school basketball if you think Kareem only had one move in the post. He had a consistent post up turnaround fall away jumper too when he played on the Bucks
That is true. But many of us wonder why he let that part of his game go. With the Lakers he became almost exclusively a hook man. As great as he was, I felt if he had maintained his diversification, he could have been even more deadly.
As a Spurs fan, I am so glad they did not trade Tony for Jason Kidd. I don't care what other people say, I'll take Tony over Kidd any day. Better shooter, scorer, he put just as much pressure on defenses as Kidd did. Jason is a superior rebounder and defensive player. But Tony played solid defense and you had to respect his scoring.
@WhoJeanTaw I didn't make any difference WHO threw him the ball (PG, SG, SF, PF). Just get it to Kareem and get out of the way. Oscar never led the NBA in assists playing with Kareem, Magic never led the NBA in assists without Kareem. Neither won rings without him. If Pete Maravich is on the Lakers when Kareem arrives, he has at least one Title.
@JAWrightonline did he win a title without a top 75 pg? He had a looong career, so he should have had at least one. Oh right. None. It DOES make a difference WHO threw him the ball because he had 1 title courtesy of bringing the big O from the Kings and 5 after drafting Magic, which coincidentally is the number of titles Magic has on his resume. So if you're going to use that argument - check his circumstance as well. But i will give Kareem this, he is the NBA's all time leading scorer till now with lesser 3 pointers (1) and College eating at least three years of his career (hence starting a little late).
A huge Abdul-Jabbar fan here. To say he only used one move means you ...the video creator...never watched an appreciable amount of film/video about the man. He had a jump shot, excellent post moves, and great athleticism. The "Sky Hook" was his SIGNATURE move, not his only move. Watch more footage about him, and you'll see what I mean.
I've just noticed something as a non-American, NCAA is spoken as "N C Double A" when "N C A A" is shorter and requires one less syllable, is this gonna stay like this or will it be fixed like how we now say "triple W dot" instead of "double U double U double U dot" back in the 90s and early 2000s
Sky Hook had a 50% effectiveness. And was unguardable. The only other unguardable shot I cant think of is Jokic midrange-on-the-move floater. That thing had a 60% success rate.
Except for the fact that Wilt Chamberlain could stop the Sky Hook. Which equates to Kareem was not unstoppable. Wilt would block those sky hooks whenever him and Kareem matched up. There is game footage of Wilt Chamberlain blocking the Sky Hook 3 to 4 times in one defensive sequence and you saw a clip of it in this video.
@@barryallen1035 Yeah, and it wasn't the only move Kareem had, either, so the headline is a little misleading, to make Kareem look like he only had one move. The sky hook was blocked by other players as well in different situations; I remember Walton timing it just right for the block a few times. But even Wilt said that he couldn't guard Jabbar consistently. And Wilt had a 50" vertical leap! Now, that could have been the Twin Towers, Wilt and Kareem on the same team!
I was 76ers fan when I first took an interest in the NBA, and I HATED Jabbar. The skyhook was virtually unstoppable. When Bill Willoughby of the Rockets blocked it, it made the national highlights...Think about that; a guy gets his shot blocked and it makes the highlight reel because the play was as rare as a red diamond.
Saying “all he did was one move” is blatantly stupid and flat out disrespectful. It doesn’t really matter if this video praises his greatness when both the title and the description paint such a blatant lie.
I used this move in middle school lol I was short and it was the only move that taller kids couldn’t block haha 😆 I was 5’2” back then a whole foot shorter than I am now haha 😆
Kareem was NOT unstoppable, Wilt Chamberlain slowed him down on a regular basis until Wilt retired as the All-Time Leading Scorer. There is game footage of Wilt Chamberlain blocking the Sky Hook 3 to 4 times in one defensive sequence and you saw a clip of it in this video.
@@JAWrightonline Kareem averaged well above 30ppg against other teams/Centers/Big Men. 30ppg is the lowest anyone could hope to hold Kareem to. He was held the All-Time leading scorer title for like 40 years, man. Any progress you made against him you'd take it. I know of one season he averaged better than 33ppg against the entire league.
I cant say no one could stop Kareem because when i seem him go against Wilt Chamberlain he blocked his sky hook 3 times and this was when Wilt was old on the Lakers at the end of his career Kareem was young. If it was young Wilt vs Young Kareem i think that would've been a whole different story.
sometimes the truth hurts…….jabbars titles all came with great teams great teams or both!…….nobody’s calling Oscar or Magic the greatest players ever! That’s the truth: live with it!
Thats why i say and its very accurate ,that rings are the worst and most lazy argument, regarding a players true value since it is depending on a plethora of variables even a coin toss..Kareem could have ended his career wit just 1 ring, having a total different legacy if Magic has gone to the Bulls period..what they don't say in this documentary is that in 79 he had Nixon,Wilkes and Adrian Dantley in his team yet they got eliminated 4 to 1 from Seattle,still they needed the man to glue it all together and that was Magic and his sharing not individualistic approach on the game..That also proves that until Magic arrival to the scene, Dr J had way more success in playoffs and had almost dominated the decade and NBA instantly missing a ring and finals MVP in the 77 finals by having a toxic locker room full of bus drivers and an incompetent coach Gene Shue who never understood the moment plus the ownnership and managment who also missed the moment completely allowing all the shenanigans from Shue asking Dr J to limit his offense in favor of Collins,McGinnis and Free instead of building a game style to get the most out of their superstar!
One skill? Kareem was teh best passing Center besides Walton and possibly Unseld in the league. He was a force defensively. He had lots of moves besides the Sky Hook. I'm calling BS on your click bait title because that is far from true. Only Walton was a more well rounded big in the NBA
Not only that, but he developed his hook shot much earlier as a ridiculously tall twelve year old playing against grown men. His autobiography Giant Steps goes into detail on this; as a young person thrust into pickup games in NYC, he said that the skyhook was the only thing he could do that wouldn’t get thrown right back into his face by his stronger opponents. This all just meant that he was not going to be hurt by the NCAA outlawing the dunk in ‘67.
Without a single 3 pointer, LeBron would have 38,040 points. That's around 300 points away from Kareems old record. LeBron would break the record about 10-15 games into this season. I know LeBron haters are simple and emotional but do a tiny bit of research before running your mouth. Also to the author of this video; Agreeing with these types of comments is distasteful and intellectually dishonest. You lost a subscriber before I even watched the video.
@TyroneNBAFan you subtracted how many 3's he's made not how many points those 3's are worth 2,410 3 pointers is 7,230 points take that away from his regular season total and that is 40,474 minus 7,230 points means without the 3 point line he has 33,244 points total in the regular season GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT YOU IDIOT OR DON'T POST AT ALL
Prime Kareem in the ‘70s was great… BUT he truly didn’t have elite HOF centers playing against him. Sure, he played against an old Wilt. And some other very good centers. But not against prime HOF centers like Olajuwon, Robinson, Shaq, or even a prime Wilt and Russell. Despite having a great advantage during the ‘70s, Kareem only won 1 ring in 1971.
really? Destroyed him?? scored 2 points a game more in the finals. He did out rebound him by a fairly large margin though but he from far destroyed him....
@@johnnythekid4601I wonder how the same people who trash Kareem for being outplayed by Moses in the finals when he was 36 will turn around and give Hakeem a free pass for getting smashed like a bug by Shaq in the 99 playoffs when he was 36?? All I heard was poor Hakeem was just too old. Kareem could never hide behind excuses like Hakeem. You see the double standard??
EVERYONE IS DUMB... Kareem gets so much love for the Sky Hook... WHO THE FUCK SHOOTS A FINESSE SHOT WHEN YOU ARE 7 FEET 3 INCHES & THE BEST ATHLETE ON THE COURT (he could run, he had great balance, he good jump)... without Magic Johnson, Kareem lost to 2nd Round Pick Shorty Gus Williams in '78 & '79 playoffs... Kareem is like Queen in that they chose to be finesse players when the obviously correct route was to be a power player relentlessly attacking the rim like Shaq & MJ... Kareem & Queen did not want to do the hard work of bangin' by the basket (6-5 Charles Barkley wasn't scared), and thus obviously not better than MJ and i would argue Olajuwon was better than both of them (The Dream beat Kareem in '86 when the Lakers were loaded with 2 more #1 overall draft picks Magic/Worthy)... why everyone praises a finesse move from a 7-3 guy can only be explained by everyone being dumb... fax!!!
You're an ignorant hater. As far as Jordan attacking the rim? When you went whining and crying to David Stern about the Pistons, he didn't have to worry about getting hit, much less breathed on, again. Shaq had no choice but to attack the rim. He couldn't shoot. Anything beyond five feet was out of his range.
Using only one shot is a lie. The skyhook was his signature shot a undefendable Kareem had skills. If you're old enough to watch him play you shouldn't have any comments
Kareem didnt only utilize one offensive manuver during any stage of his storied career ,during his prime athletic years he was a multifaceted , offensive juggernaut, from 15 foot jump shots , post up turnaround jumpers ,cross over ,leaving defenders standing like they were stuck in quick sand ,post up reverse spin moves ,end resulting with dunks ,beating opposing defenders down court for fast break dunks ,bank shots jumpers galore ,google kareem prime yrs 1970-76 and witness his incredible artistry. The nba and sports media imprinted the vision into the mind of folks that kareem possessed merely a skyhook as a weapon by only showing the montage of him using the skyhook on magazines ,commercials etc which ironically did a disservice to Kareem Abdul Jabbars legacy because it erased / ignored his complete offensive package . In order for him to be in position to actually utilize his patent skyhook ,he had to incorporate alternate weapons to be a counter manuver when individual and multiple defenders attempted to take the skyhook weapon away . To suggests he was only a skyhook would be like stating Michael Jordan and shaq were only using dunks . Kareem Abdul Jabbar was a magnificent athlete who could deplore varous offensive skill sets to offset defenses who's tactical scheme was to minimize the skyhook .
He was also a freakishly good passer, and he had other moves besides his sky hook. On the Mount Rushmore of big men. Arguably the best of them. More importantly, a truly thoughtful and caring human being.
I have one issue with this report. Calling the sky-hook „simple“ misrepresents how much skill and training this shot required. How difficult it is to master. You need good positioning, excellent footwork, you need to do it with both hands to be effective. There is a reason why no one else used it as their staple and money shot. It is freaking hard.
fair point!
Kareem is always such a thoughtful, entertaining, speaker.
@@joemarshall4226 Yes, and he is a novelist with a NYT Best Seller to his credit!
What? He became an awful, violent human being ever since he converted to Islam. Have you seen him speak? Maybe you meant to say Magic? Magic was always incredible.
Even more incredible is that he did a full four years of college (freshman team, as required by the NCAA in those days and then 3 years of varsity) before his 20-year career in the NBA! After graduating from UCLA in 1969, he then played in the NBA from 1969 until 1989. He won an NBA Finals MVP in 1985, at the age of 38! He was a winner at every level of basketball. His high school team was 79-2 during Kareem's tenure on the team. At UCLA, his freshman squad beat the two-time defending national champion varsity team by 15 points in the annual freshman vs. varsity pre-season game. The UCLA Freshmen went 21-0 that year. The next year, Kareem's first year on the varsity team, he scored 56 points and grabbed 21 rebounds in his first varsity game. His college record was 88-2, and Kareem's 3-year varsity team experience at UCLA resulted in three national championships. He was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Final Four each of those years, as well as National College Player of the Year each of the three years he played varsity. So, from high school through college, Abdul-Jabbar was 188-4 before he suited up for an NBA game. His NBA career speaks for itself, with 6 NBA Championships, 2 Finals MVPs, 6 regular season MVPs, and 19 all-star appearances. He was All-NBA 15 times, and All-NBA-Defensive 11 times. College basketball made it against the rules to dunk the basketball after his first year on the varsity squad, a rule change that was a transparent attempt to try to compensate for his dominance of the game. Without making a three-point shot, he was the record holder for total points scored in the NBA for over 30 years.
I would like for someone to tell me, with a straight face, why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is never part of any serious conversation about the G.O.A.T. in the NBA.
Religion, and him not being marketable even it was needed.
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One of the greatest players ever a true superstar
incredible documentary. this needs more views.
We will get there, for now I'm just glad you enjoyed my man
I'm now 64yrs old and my first shot I learned how to shoot was a😢 sky hook rather inside or out side, other guys I grew up with couldn't understand how this was possible but I did it from about age 9 to 13 or 14 when my jump shot first developed.Kareem was the reason for my shooting a hook shot when I was a boy, however know one remembers it from the many battles on the Basketball court in baltimore maryland on the school yard located Hoffman and Kenhill street on the east side. However at 50yrs old I played my last game under the whistle and my last shot made was a skyhook.
An old Wilt Chamberlain blocked the "unguardable" shot a couple of times. In one game he did it three times in a row.
Great video, but a horribly disrespectful title for one of the skilled players of all time.
Your documentaries are so underrated! I haven't even finished watching the video but based on your other documentaries and what I've seen, this is gonna be just as fire 🔥🔥🔥
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Thank you for the kind words bro!
Gratitude for sharing.
Too bad for The Knicks that they didn't sign Kareem in 1975.
FINALLY YOUR DOCS ARE TRULY AMAZING ME AND MY BROTHER LOVE WATCHING (pls do David Robinson or Tim Duncan next) great videos just keep posting
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Kareem Abdul Jabaar top 5 all time
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top 3
6 time MVP
6 time champion
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was the top all time scoring leader for almost 40 years
You don't watch much old school basketball if you think Kareem only had one move in the post. He had a consistent post up turnaround fall away jumper too when he played on the Bucks
That is true. But many of us wonder why he let that part of his game go. With the Lakers he became almost exclusively a hook man. As great as he was, I felt if he had maintained his diversification, he could have been even more deadly.
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No one talks about this but Tony Parker's floaters were hell to deal with when he drove in the lane. Yeah it's no skyhook but still 4 titles❤
Yeah, Tony Parker and his floater got 4 Titles--COURTESY OF TIM DUNCAN.
As a Spurs fan, I am so glad they did not trade Tony for Jason Kidd. I don't care what other people say, I'll take Tony over Kidd any day. Better shooter, scorer, he put just as much pressure on defenses as Kidd did. Jason is a superior rebounder and defensive player. But Tony played solid defense and you had to respect his scoring.
@@JAWrightonline so did any team my guy. Kareem owes his point guards for his accolades, the ball just wont go to him by itself.
@WhoJeanTaw I didn't make any difference WHO threw him the ball (PG, SG, SF, PF). Just get it to Kareem and get out of the way.
Oscar never led the NBA in assists playing with Kareem, Magic never led the NBA in assists without Kareem. Neither won rings without him. If Pete Maravich is on the Lakers when Kareem arrives, he has at least one Title.
@JAWrightonline did he win a title without a top 75 pg? He had a looong career, so he should have had at least one. Oh right. None.
It DOES make a difference WHO threw him the ball because he had 1 title courtesy of bringing the big O from the Kings and 5 after drafting Magic, which coincidentally is the number of titles Magic has on his resume. So if you're going to use that argument - check his circumstance as well.
But i will give Kareem this, he is the NBA's all time leading scorer till now with lesser 3 pointers (1) and College eating at least three years of his career (hence starting a little late).
That's Right, he Only had One Move!!
A huge Abdul-Jabbar fan here. To say he only used one move means you ...the video creator...never watched an appreciable amount of film/video about the man. He had a jump shot, excellent post moves, and great athleticism. The "Sky Hook" was his SIGNATURE move, not his only move. Watch more footage about him, and you'll see what I mean.
I've just noticed something as a non-American, NCAA is spoken as "N C Double A" when "N C A A" is shorter and requires one less syllable, is this gonna stay like this or will it be fixed like how we now say "triple W dot" instead of "double U double U double U dot" back in the 90s and early 2000s
Another banger❤
Benson was a cheap shot player and Kareem had enough. That punch was warranted.Your documentary was adequately done.
Sky Hook had a 50% effectiveness. And was unguardable. The only other unguardable shot I cant think of is Jokic midrange-on-the-move floater. That thing had a 60% success rate.
What about Steph Curry's step back jumper?
Except for the fact that Wilt Chamberlain could stop the Sky Hook. Which equates to Kareem was not unstoppable. Wilt would block those sky hooks whenever him and Kareem matched up. There is game footage of Wilt Chamberlain blocking the Sky Hook 3 to 4 times in one defensive sequence and you saw a clip of it in this video.
@@barryallen1035 That explains how you need a defensive beast to stop him, wilt is the most dominant center ever, so still an unstoppable move to me.
@@barryallen1035 Yeah, and it wasn't the only move Kareem had, either, so the headline is a little misleading, to make Kareem look like he only had one move. The sky hook was blocked by other players as well in different situations; I remember Walton timing it just right for the block a few times. But even Wilt said that he couldn't guard Jabbar consistently. And Wilt had a 50" vertical leap! Now, that could have been the Twin Towers, Wilt and Kareem on the same team!
Dirk’s Fader too
The hook shot was not Kareem’s only scoring move He had the most points ever for over 30 years !
I was 76ers fan when I first took an interest in the NBA, and I HATED Jabbar. The skyhook was virtually unstoppable. When Bill Willoughby of the Rockets blocked it, it made the national highlights...Think about that; a guy gets his shot blocked and it makes the highlight reel because the play was as rare as a red diamond.
For me MJ is the Goat, but the only ones who can dispute that are Kareem and Wilt
Wilt
Bill Russell will get a lot of votes as well. Especially from people who played with and against him.
wilt is NOT close to a goat compared to Kareem mj or lebron
Only used one move? Kareem? It should be said: "Used many moves, but one was utterly dominant".
Fair comment!
That's why he's my GOAT
Sucker punch??
Saying “all he did was one move” is blatantly stupid and flat out disrespectful.
It doesn’t really matter if this video praises his greatness when both the title and the description paint such a blatant lie.
Skyhook it's not easy and kareem dunking too. So it's not only 1 move
In another video, Kareem said he began working on his hook shot when he was 12.
I used this move in middle school lol I was short and it was the only move that taller kids couldn’t block haha 😆 I was 5’2” back then a whole foot shorter than I am now haha 😆
kareem abdul jabbar!
Kareem 😈
keep up the great videos man, but the story telling was a little convoluted and confusing in the beginning
why does the thumbnail looks like jayson tatum becomes kareem haha
Kareem was NOT unstoppable, Wilt Chamberlain slowed him down on a regular basis until Wilt retired as the All-Time Leading Scorer. There is game footage of Wilt Chamberlain blocking the Sky Hook 3 to 4 times in one defensive sequence and you saw a clip of it in this video.
"Slowed him down" so well that Kareem averaged 30+ppg vs. Wilt in their matchups.
@@JAWrightonline Kareem averaged well above 30ppg against other teams/Centers/Big Men. 30ppg is the lowest anyone could hope to hold Kareem to. He was held the All-Time leading scorer title for like 40 years, man. Any progress you made against him you'd take it. I know of one season he averaged better than 33ppg against the entire league.
Wilt could stop that hook. The only one consistently.
Lew alcindor was his first name in high school, college, and his early days with the bucks.
Kareem was much more than his hook shot.
Don’t understand how your last vid didn’t get more views! This one too!
Good food cooks slow
@@Outofboundshoops good quote
kareem number 1 weapon.number 2 is Kd
"Most beautiful moves" ≠ James Harden pushing off and traveling backwards
I love your videos, can you make a Russell Westbrook video next?
One day for sure
@@Outofboundshoops Thanks!
if only wemby ever train this move with kareem 😮
The captain.
Please do Donovan Mitchell next!
I cant say no one could stop Kareem because when i seem him go against Wilt Chamberlain he blocked his sky hook 3 times and this was when Wilt was old on the Lakers at the end of his career Kareem was young. If it was young Wilt vs Young Kareem i think that would've been a whole different story.
And Wilt never blocked it again !
Wilt blocked it more that. But only 1 team had a Wilt. Walton and Thurmond played him pretty well, too.
@@Amick44 show me video ! lol never happened even Kareem said Wilt never blocked it again !
Wilt got older more quickly than Kareem . Kareem at 38 was MVP finals. And Wilt at this age was finished.
And never blocked it again !
He never won a NBA title without OSCAR or MAGIC…….He never won at UCLA without the 2nd greatest dynasty ever!
How many NBA Titles did Oscar or Magic win WITHOUT KAREEM, hater?
Who's the greatest dynasty if UCLA is second?
sometimes the truth hurts…….jabbars titles all came with great teams great teams or both!…….nobody’s calling Oscar or Magic the greatest players ever! That’s the truth: live with it!
“Great players or great teams or both”!
Montreal Canadians 24 Stanley cup to titles!
Calvin Murphy was known as the little giant……..Jabbar was known as the giant little!…….Nuff said?
Very nice
He should have 7 mvps
Last time i came this early i got a girl pregnant
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Nobody could stop him ..except Bruce Lee.
This guy is full of crap.
Only Wilt handled him and beat him the majority of the time. Only Wilt blocked the skyhook.
Walton and Moses gave it to him as well. Especially Moses.
Blud was Js a crashout 😭
#33 comment. The real #1 on this video
Wilt Chamberlain was a better defensive player than Jabbar. A far better rebounder. Nobody saw him as Chamberlain on offense and Russell on defense. .
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make one on kobe please
I think I can improve the script, thumbnail, title, description for your video.
Thats why i say and its very accurate ,that rings are the worst and most lazy argument, regarding a players true value since it is depending on a plethora of variables even a coin toss..Kareem could have ended his career wit just 1 ring, having a total different legacy if Magic has gone to the Bulls period..what they don't say in this documentary is that in 79 he had Nixon,Wilkes and Adrian Dantley in his team yet they got eliminated 4 to 1 from Seattle,still they needed the man to glue it all together and that was Magic and his sharing not individualistic approach on the game..That also proves that until Magic arrival to the scene, Dr J had way more success in playoffs and had almost dominated the decade and NBA instantly missing a ring and finals MVP in the 77 finals by having a toxic locker room full of bus drivers and an incompetent coach Gene Shue who never understood the moment plus the ownnership and managment who also missed the moment completely allowing all the shenanigans from Shue asking Dr J to limit his offense in favor of Collins,McGinnis and Free instead of building a game style to get the most out of their superstar!
You say Wilt was never able to get a finger on the sky hook - you are wrong. Wilt once blocked 2 of them in a row.
One skill? Kareem was teh best passing Center besides Walton and possibly Unseld in the league. He was a force defensively. He had lots of moves besides the Sky Hook. I'm calling BS on your click bait title because that is far from true. Only Walton was a more well rounded big in the NBA
Hey mom out of bounds posted come to the living room
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I do think Kareem is a serious GOAT contender.
WTF is film of WNC blocking this one trick ponys hook shot over & over?
Goaltends don't get views and "likes," that's why.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was a one-trick pony: The words of a basketball idiot.
That's garbage, he had more than one move. He had many moves he could play defense rebound run the court.
Not only that, but he developed his hook shot much earlier as a ridiculously tall twelve year old playing against grown men. His autobiography Giant Steps goes into detail on this; as a young person thrust into pickup games in NYC, he said that the skyhook was the only thing he could do that wouldn’t get thrown right back into his face by his stronger opponents. This all just meant that he was not going to be hurt by the NCAA outlawing the dunk in ‘67.
Without the 3 point line LeBron is nowhere near the points record
Without a single 3 pointer, LeBron would have 38,040 points. That's around 300 points away from Kareems old record.
LeBron would break the record about 10-15 games into this season.
I know LeBron haters are simple and emotional but do a tiny bit of research before running your mouth.
Also to the author of this video; Agreeing with these types of comments is distasteful and intellectually dishonest.
You lost a subscriber before I even watched the video.
@TyroneNBAFan you subtracted how many 3's he's made not how many points those 3's are worth 2,410 3 pointers is 7,230 points take that away from his regular season total and that is 40,474 minus 7,230 points means without the 3 point line he has 33,244 points total in the regular season GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT YOU IDIOT OR DON'T POST AT ALL
Prime Kareem in the ‘70s was great… BUT he truly didn’t have elite HOF centers playing against him. Sure, he played against an old Wilt. And some other very good centers. But not against prime HOF centers like Olajuwon, Robinson, Shaq, or even a prime Wilt and Russell. Despite having a great advantage during the ‘70s, Kareem only won 1 ring in 1971.
He played against HOF centers in the 70’s
He dropped 40+points on Olajuwon MULTIPLE times while Kareem was in his late 30s.
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Wilt could block the hook shot, Moses destroyed him. What are you talking about
True. But he was a near unstoppable headache for 90% of the league.
Did you watch the video? I show those blocks
really? Destroyed him?? scored 2 points a game more in the finals. He did out rebound him by a fairly large margin though but he from far destroyed him....
Clearly not with being the All time scoring champion and 6 time nba champion and mvp✨✨✨🏀
@@johnnythekid4601I wonder how the same people who trash Kareem for being outplayed by Moses in the finals when he was 36 will turn around and give Hakeem a free pass for getting smashed like a bug by Shaq in the 99 playoffs when he was 36?? All I heard was poor Hakeem was just too old. Kareem could never hide behind excuses like Hakeem. You see the double standard??
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The guy that almost killed basketball with boredom.
But your a fan of Tim Duncan?
EVERYONE IS DUMB... Kareem gets so much love for the Sky Hook... WHO THE FUCK SHOOTS A FINESSE SHOT WHEN YOU ARE 7 FEET 3 INCHES & THE BEST ATHLETE ON THE COURT (he could run, he had great balance, he good jump)... without Magic Johnson, Kareem lost to 2nd Round Pick Shorty Gus Williams in '78 & '79 playoffs... Kareem is like Queen in that they chose to be finesse players when the obviously correct route was to be a power player relentlessly attacking the rim like Shaq & MJ... Kareem & Queen did not want to do the hard work of bangin' by the basket (6-5 Charles Barkley wasn't scared), and thus obviously not better than MJ and i would argue Olajuwon was better than both of them (The Dream beat Kareem in '86 when the Lakers were loaded with 2 more #1 overall draft picks Magic/Worthy)... why everyone praises a finesse move from a 7-3 guy can only be explained by everyone being dumb... fax!!!
You're an ignorant hater. As far as Jordan attacking the rim? When you went whining and crying to David Stern about the Pistons, he didn't have to worry about getting hit, much less breathed on, again.
Shaq had no choice but to attack the rim. He couldn't shoot. Anything beyond five feet was out of his range.
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Yeah....great player...but gone woke.
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Using only one shot is a lie. The skyhook was his signature shot a undefendable Kareem had skills. If you're old enough to watch him play you shouldn't have any comments
No, youngster,the NCAA outlawed slam dunking.. not the hook shot...
My bad... you did say that they banned the dunk.. I'm sorry
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