Funniest Kareem part in Airplane! was when he passed out from the fish and they pulled him out of his seat and he was wearing Laker shorts and a jock strap.
Great find NPZ. Nice piece, and a sympathetic piece too. I wasn't around in the 80s, but I've always liked Kareem, both as a basketball player and as a man. I can only imagine what it must've been like to grow up not only freakishly tall, but also Black, during a time when Black people had to deal with a lot more racist shit than nowadays. Kareem seems like a gentle giant, and I respect what he has done as an activist for his people.
Dick Schaap forgot to mention that Cheryl also worked for Happy Hairston (former Laker). I believe Happy made the official introduction between the two.
I will never forget KAREEM went to the PHILIPPINES in 1982. And he was a nice.gentle and very humble man❤️.. he conducted a basketball clinic in UNIVERSITY OF STO TOMAS in ESPANA MANILA.. very quiet and he was interviewed one time in a famous TV NOONTIME VARIETY SHOW back then..
3:39 Look at em stand in that terminal, man. Hah. That's surreal looking today. It was only in like 89 when the Pistons iirc were the first team to get their own plane, Lakers and richer teams followed suit quickly. But you see this old footage of them schlepping around w/ average pukes, even if in first class seats. They would still have to sit there w/ fans asking for sigs all flight long. Same legroom for Kareem as for Avg Joe.
@@jayell1979 Yeah. It was a combination of that and being overwhelmed by how large IU was because the number of students there is way more than the number of people in his hometown.
20/20 did great exposes in various matters. I saw one recently on a walkway collapse at a Hyatt hotel in KC in 1981 that killed 100+. It pulled a tear or two out of me, the humanity of the scenery. This was around the time of the hotel collapse in Florida recently. There was a death toll in this 1981 thing comparable to the hotel facade collapse and it faded away due to the ravages of time. Sad how that goes, but the same will happen to the dead in the Florida story.
He’s always been one of my heroes.
Funniest Kareem part in Airplane! was when he passed out from the fish and they pulled him out of his seat and he was wearing Laker shorts and a jock strap.
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Awesome !!
Boy were they wrong. He had 7 more years left in him.
Thank you very much for this!!! 🙌 🤲!!
Great find NPZ. Nice piece, and a sympathetic piece too.
I wasn't around in the 80s, but I've always liked Kareem, both as a basketball player and as a man. I can only imagine what it must've been like to grow up not only freakishly tall, but also Black, during a time when Black people had to deal with a lot more racist shit than nowadays.
Kareem seems like a gentle giant, and I respect what he has done as an activist for his people.
Thanks NPZ - awesome
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Dick Schaap forgot to mention that Cheryl also worked for Happy Hairston (former Laker). I believe Happy made the official introduction between the two.
Aww this is beautiful 😍
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same way you say it davo!
I will never forget KAREEM went to the PHILIPPINES in 1982. And he was a nice.gentle and very humble man❤️.. he conducted a basketball clinic in UNIVERSITY OF STO TOMAS in ESPANA MANILA.. very quiet and he was interviewed one time in a famous TV NOONTIME VARIETY SHOW back then..
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3:39 Look at em stand in that terminal, man. Hah. That's surreal looking today. It was only in like 89 when the Pistons iirc were the first team to get their own plane, Lakers and richer teams followed suit quickly. But you see this old footage of them schlepping around w/ average pukes, even if in first class seats. They would still have to sit there w/ fans asking for sigs all flight long. Same legroom for Kareem as for Avg Joe.
8:15 Ah yes, Kent Benson. The man who was such an asshole he made Larry Bird leave the Indiana Hoosiers after a month. He 100% deserved that.
That was Kent's 1st NBA game, no less. Welcome to the NBA, rookie.
@@nonplayerzealot4 He had to learn.
Wow. Never knew that. Knew that he left from there to go to Indiana State but never knew the reason why. Interesting.
@@jayell1979 Yeah. It was a combination of that and being overwhelmed by how large IU was because the number of students there is way more than the number of people in his hometown.
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20/20 did great exposes in various matters. I saw one recently on a walkway collapse at a Hyatt hotel in KC in 1981 that killed 100+. It pulled a tear or two out of me, the humanity of the scenery. This was around the time of the hotel collapse in Florida recently. There was a death toll in this 1981 thing comparable to the hotel facade collapse and it faded away due to the ravages of time. Sad how that goes, but the same will happen to the dead in the Florida story.
@@nonplayerzealot4, who can remember when the legendary Sir David Frost interviewed the deposed Shah of Iran on the January 17, 1980 edition of 20/20.
@@russellpavlov1343 i was 3 then so not i, but id watch it now
Awesome!!