In 1992, NBA legends Julius Erving & Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played a one-on-one exhibition that had more intensity than most NBA regular season games & probably even some playoff games, in 2026.
Erving was 42. Jabbar was 45.
Pride used to be what fueled most of sports. Now, we have to legislate around the lack of it.🤦♂️
FOUR INTERESTING THINGS PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT WILT:
4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: “One time [when as a teenager he saw Chamberlain playing in a Harlem summer league] I can remember like a photograph: His head was almost above the rim; there were players draped all around his neck, and it looked for all the world like the end of Moby Dick, with Gregory Peck lashed to his prey, beckoning his crew to join the quest. Wilt Chamberlain as the White Whale.”
(Mar. 18, 1991)