Kareem explains who were the 2 toughest NBA players he ever played against

I interviewed Jerry West on the 92nd Street Y a couple of years ago and I met him and was at dinner with him and he was one of the all-time greats, a great Laker, but his luck against the Celtics wasn't as good. Well, I had read that when he

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he didn't allow his children to wear green clothes. Did he come that far for you or not? It didn't go that far for me and when I was in high school, I rooted for himself, in fact I rooted for Bill Russell, he sure was a great role model for me and I watched him play and learned a lot about how to play with just go to Madison Square Garden and watch the Celtics play.

They used to have doubleheaders at Madison Square Garden, this is the old outfield, the old outfield, yeah, so the Celtics would play in New York maybe six or eight times, since they'd play the Knicks three times and then they might play three games. additional. against other opponents at Madison Square Garden and I n

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missed those games, this is great, keep your eye on the place, how many points did you score in your career? Perhaps a more interesting question is who was your favorite player. I

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against in my career, in my professional career, I scored 38,387 points and the best challenge I had was playing professional basketball, probably the guys that made me work the hardest, probably Nate Thurman and Bob Lanier.

Nate Thurman gets lost in the shuffle in terms of talking about centers from that era great defensive center tall agile he understood how to play defense a lot of guys hit me and said they played good defense he really did it he did it he made me earn my point I was going to mention it later, but since we're here, Lanier, did Lanier ever, you know, say thank you for mentioning them in one of the great lines on a plane when you grab the kid, Bob still resents some things because you know. , his teams never could and he was with Detroit or Milwaukee, they could never beat the teams I played on and it always seemed to frustrate him.

The guys on his team were telling him that they were always called number two and he said, "Okay, number two, you're getting ready to go against number one," and he hated that surprise, he hated this, plus he had secret information about Bob. Bob likes to smoke cigarettes at halftime, so I knew that's fun at my basketball camp. They didn't include that about how to improve your game, so I knew Bob was smoking cigarettes at halftime, so in the second half I made Bob run and you know he was in pain. I could see it and it really affected his game and he never knew that I knew that I talked to him about it since we retired and he said and he said what is, God, well, I should have known better, yeah, and yet you still gave him recognition on the line. on planes or boys, Bob was a good guy and he was also president of the Players Association for a long time and when I was a representative of my team, I got to know him very well because we had to talk on the phone there was a lot of pressure against the player representatives in those days, yeah, what are you doing especially before we got the good collective bargaining agreements?

You know, the back-and-forth between landlords and employers. The association could sometimes become very intense when You were an active player, did you distinguish regional play styles and, if so, do you think they still exist? It's an interesting question. Yes I think so. I realized that coming from New York, the New York guys wanted to attack the hoop that it's about. athletic ability how high you could jump a lot of kids from other parts of the country were better outside shooters um so there was a different regional thing um kids from Detroit can play I just noticed a lot of kids from Detroit come to League they can play, they understand the game in Detroit, they play very hard and they play very well, that's interesting.

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