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Kevin Collins. Fr. Potential varsity material. Excellent athlete. Freshman football player. Team's high scorer and "designated dunker...
Abdul-Jabbar is more of an aesthete, a sky-hooker, not a slam-dunker, devastatingly shy. He has never been able to hide the shame of his height. Fourteen years ago, Abdul-Jabbar (né Lew Alcindor, U.C.L.A. '69) told Teammate Jon McGlocklin that he intended to play no more than five seasons of pro ball. Recently he ran into McGlocklin, who reminded him of this. It started Kareem reflecting on this job that he has only lately considered a profession. "It's getting to be scary," he says, "all the teammates and opponents who have come...
Shredded Strings. This season's array of gifted college players-not to mention dunkers-is among the biggest in basketball history. U.C.L.A.'s Marques Johnson, winner of the new Adolph Rupp Trophy as the nation's top player, is a dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were...
...goes around plucking butts from smokers' mouths. One vigilante tactic: when a fellow guest lights up after dinner, an antismoker dunks his hand in the smoker's water glass. "What the...!" expostulates the smoker. "You don't like me polluting your water," replies the grim dunker. "I don't like you polluting...
After one turn around the league, only Elvin's opposition was hurting. Elbows slashing like scythes, he was collecting an average of 18 rebounds a game. Trading on his fadeaway jump shot, and a rim-rattling dunker, he recently turned in the top N.B.A. individual performance so far this season: 54 points against the Detroit Pistons. Last week, with a 147-point spree in four games, Elvin became the league's highest scorer...