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Weapon of Choice

It was back in the day at our high school of Operation Brotherhood Montessori in Greenhills, when kids would lose their spare change to one of the employees of our school. I, along with other students who played basketball after school while waiting for their ride home, would challenge Manong for three point shots.

We would choose a spot, place our coins on the floor beyond the three point line, and he would do the same. We would do our best and sometimes hit the three. However, Manong, who probably stood a good 5'1", would always hit the three. With a frickin' Hook shot. For most of us, we would challenge him not to win but to see him do it. Sometimes he would hit it from the half court (beat that LaMelo!). We would even have games with the school employees and his hook shot would be the entertaining part of the game (forget winning).

It was his go-to move. As it was also chosen and fully utilized by the all-time great Kareem Abdul Jabbar.

The Sky Hook of Jabbar, and Manong, was amusing because of how efficient yet awkward or unconventional it was when executed. But damn was it efficient. It must take a savant to master it because in the professional level, only Kareem truly embraced it and used it.

Using his towering height and lengthy wingspan to his advantage, the ball would leave Kareem’s right hand 12 feet in the air with his left shoulder practically pushing away any defender who dare attempts to block it. Few have been able to stop it, such as the legendary Wilt Chamberlain by a handful of times, but most have always failed.

Kareem once said "I used it to become the leading scorer in the history of the NBA; there has to be something about it that works."

And it worked really well. Anyone who follows basketball would know that Kareem is the all-time scoring leader. Across 20 seasons in the NBA, Kareem has scored 38,387 points and the active players who may have a shot at chasing that record are Dirk Nowitzki and Lebron James who are now at 6th with 31,091 and 7th with 30,624, respectively. Like a cheat code though, Dirk and Lebron are able to use the three point shot unlike Kareem who played entirely in the post. If we were to count only two-point shots, then Kareem’s scoring record would definitely be an untouchable record for decades and perhaps centuries to come.

On #MVPMonday, and on the first blog post of Basketball & Kicks Pare, this contributor chose to honor the one with the most career points scored, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and his weapon of choice, the unstoppable Sky Hook.

Enjoy the rest of the week, Pare!

-Khairy Alonto, 2 April 2018

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