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SPORTS > basketball player > Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The first time...
Vendor: SPORTS
The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.
Source: In Star, May 1986.
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, (Apr 16 1947-____), US basketball player; He was a 7-foot 1 3/8-inch center who dominated basketball throughout the 1970s and the early '80s.