It was an unstoppable offensive weapon, and it helped build an all-time mark that has lasted nearly four decades.
When Kareem Abdul-Jabbar swung to his left at the baseline and unleashed his trademark skyhook on April 5, 1984, on a neutral court in Las Vegas, he was about to make history. But who could have guessed how long that history would last?
Kareem’s mark, which eventually reached 38,387 when he retired in 1989, has lasted 38 years and 301 days as of Tuesday. The guy who is about to break it, current Laker LeBron James, wasn’tAnd, with the passage of time and our natural recency bias – which is, to be sure, the main driver of every G.O.A.T. argument on social media these days – it’s easy to forget the magnitude of Kareem’s achievement at the time, as well as how out of reach it has seemed for so many years.
The administrators involved didn’t come right out and say it was a reaction to one player – their reasoning was that the dunk “was not a skilled shot” – but they didn’t have to. You wonder if, years later, any of them ever acknowledged their roles in unleashing a monster.
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