Top 10 Basketball Slam DunkersAuthor Peter Bjarkman has chosen ten basketball players whom he thinks best define the slam dunk style. Anecdotes, career statistics, and quotations of such greats as Charles Barkley, Darryl Dawkins, Clyde Drexler, Julius Erving, Darrell Griffith, Connie Hawkins, Michael Jordan, Shawn Kemp, Scottie Pippen, and Spud Webb all bring the excitement of the court to the reader. |
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... teammates for not wanting to win badly enough . Charles has always put win- ning and hustling at the very top of his personal goals . But the outspoken athlete has also had other more important and serious messages for his legions of ...
... teammates for not wanting to win badly enough . Charles has always put win- ning and hustling at the very top of his personal goals . But the outspoken athlete has also had other more important and serious messages for his legions of ...
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... teammates were nicknamed " Phi Slamma Jamma " for their soaring and slamming style of play . Male college students often join social clubs known as fraternities that feature three Greek letters for their names . The sporting press was ...
... teammates were nicknamed " Phi Slamma Jamma " for their soaring and slamming style of play . Male college students often join social clubs known as fraternities that feature three Greek letters for their names . The sporting press was ...
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... teammates . Of course Pippen was already used to displaying his special brand of basketball magic far from the limelight . He had performed his collegiate heroics far from the glare of the television cameras and the notice of the ...
... teammates . Of course Pippen was already used to displaying his special brand of basketball magic far from the limelight . He had performed his collegiate heroics far from the glare of the television cameras and the notice of the ...
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