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Published · transcript-backedKareem Abdul-Jabbar: belief
2 Feb 2016 Conversations with Tyler Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
“I would make him do the fundamentals every day before practice, and he just thought it was boring, but now that he’s not getting paid like he was, I think he might have a different opinion about that, but it’s too late now.”
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Transcript context
…Economic incentive. He’s only 27 years old this year, and he’s not playing in the NBA. He hasn’t played in a couple of years, and he’s not going to make it because he wasn’t able to follow through on really learning all the fundamentals. I would make him do the fundamentals every day before practice, and he just thought it was boring, but now that he’s not getting paid like he was, I think he might have a different opinion about that, but it’s too late now. You’ve said in your other interviews that actually you applied the methods of Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes to basketball — studying your opponents, seeing things which they didn’t, understanding their weak points, understanding how you could take advantage of them. This Sherlock Holmes metaphor, you’ve carried that with you really since high school or maybe longer. Is that correct?…
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