However, due to the misleading of new york's "black street", he could not enter the NBA from beginning to end, and even failed to set foot in college basketball. Finally, his legendary basketball career ended in tragedy.
Anyone familiar with Jabbar's life knows that he is an arrogant giant and his basketball career is invincible. Why is there such praise for a street basketball player? Because Qiao Ba was defeated by a goat, he knew exactly what a goat could do.
To defeat Qiao Ba, who is 7' 2 ",the" Giant Killer "must be at least as tall as Qiao Ba.
Just like wilt chamberlain, or better than Qiao Ba. For example, "goat" moses malone is neither as tall as Qiao Ba nor as strong as Qiao Ba Zhuang. He is only 6 feet 2 inches tall!
What is even more astounding is his basketball talent, which is extremely elastic and explosive, and can easily win a quarter coin placed at the top of the backboard; Once I bet $60 and stopped to pour wine 36 times in a row. These are still minor cases. His signature slam dunk "one ball and two irrigation" still makes neighbors talk about it and has endless aftertaste.
He can put the ball into the basket in the air, hold it with the other hand, pull it back and then pour it.
If you don't believe in his magic skills in the bullring, then in the 1964 high school star game, the goat showed the free throw line and dunked with both hands, which is enough!
At that time, the goat seized the fast break opportunity and went straight to the frontcourt. A player who retreats to defend is 6' 6 "and a player is 6' 8". The goat is planning his steps, and the two long men are ready for a tight encirclement.
After the goat dribbled to the free throw line, it took off. No one knows what the goat wants to do when he takes off from the free throw line. Two long people jumped up and blocked at the same time, only to see the goat flying higher and higher.
These two long people have started to land. The audience was full of fans staring at the goat. It's time to brake. Hands in the air, goat, beyond the block of two long people, threw the ball into the basket. At first, the fans were silent and looked at each other. It took a long time to realize what this "dead bone" was, and the applause was deafening. It is such amazing elasticity, air suspension ability and endurance, not to mention the 60 s of 265438.
Goats are two years older than Qiao Ba. At that time, the duel between them in the public high school league was the most popular game in new york. 1962, Benjamin Franklin High School led by Goat defeated Power Memorial High School led by Jabbar and won the league championship. Jabbar was full of admiration for the goat, but later said, "He is the best player in new york's history who has such a character." At that time, they became radiant, and new york praised them as two new stars of basketball in the future.
Jabbar is indeed a star of the future. After graduating from high school, he entered UCLA, a strong basketball team of NCAA University, and then went to NBA, becoming one of the greatest centers in NBA history.
Goat's life is facing a wave of shocks, completely destroying the star of tomorrow. In the third year of high school, he was expelled from the school team for allegedly smoking marijuana. Later, he was transferred to Laurinburg preschool in North Carolina through a friend's introduction, hoping that he could stay away from black street life, think hard and plan the future basketball road. Goat barely graduated from the penultimate place and entered the traditional black university Johnson C. Smith in Charlotte, North Carolina. Goat's schoolwork still didn't improve, and he was shouldered by the coach on the school team, because his playing style was too avant-garde and exceeded the eight-legged style of the old pedant of his time. Don't talk about dunking, even passing or dribbling behind your back without looking at it is regarded as an evil spirit by the coach. Goats can't stand the repression of basketball talent and creativity any longer, so they pack their bags and return.
Life is hard and the mind is immature, so goats can only seek liberation in the bullring. In the bullring, goats can push down giants like Jabbar, Chamberlain and Connie Hawkins, but once out of the bullring, goats are useless, have no goals in life and lack opinions. They can only drift and disappear into the darkness of the street.
1969, goats were fabricated for taking heroin and imprisoned 16 months. While serving his sentence, the writer Pete Axo published the book The City Game in 1970, which described the street basketball in new york, and one chapter of it deeply discussed the legendary story of goats. Ironically, the prison guard also signed a book for the goat at that time.
At that time, Bill Daniels, the owner of Utah Star in ABA American professional basketball league, read the book and invited goats to take the test. However, goats' bodies have been eaten up by products, and they failed to enter the professional basketball stage as they wished.
1977-79 goat was jailed again for premeditated robbery. This time, a big fall also left goats in their thirties with nothing. After he got out of prison, he finally realized that he had got rid of the bad habit of smoking and broke up with his friends in the dark street. He used to promote grassroots basketball in the famous bullring. In addition to being a volunteer coach, he also held the "goat basketball championship", hoping that teenagers can learn from him.
Goat died of heart failure in May 1998 at the age of 53. In the same month, new york Park Management Office spared no effort to commemorate the goat's later promotion of public basketball, and renamed the street basketball courts on 99th Street and Amsterdam Avenue as "Goat Park".
Goat's legendary street basketball career has come to an end, but strange things about him are still circulating in the streets of new york. As long as he is mentioned in the bullring, everyone knows that he is deeply sorry for him. In everyone's mind, he will always be "the greatest player who has never played in the NBA."