Earl Manigault-The Double Dunk 7:7:23 7.21 PM
Jul 7, 2023 ·
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Have you ever seen or heard of the double dunk? I've never seen a player double dunk before. Have you ever heard of a man that played basketball name Earl Manigualt? According to Wikipedia, he was an American Street basketball player who was nicknamed “The Goat” or “The Lip”. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players to never play in the NBA. To dunk a ball then dunk it in again before coming back down sounds hot I believe he was one of the greatest.
Earl was born in Charleston South Carolina and raised in Harlem New York. Manigualt was particularly famous for his leaping abilities on the basketball court much of his legend is unsupported playground myth including his signature move the double dunk. He allegedly would dunk the ball, catch it with his left hand, switch the ball to his right hand, bring it back around to the top of the basket and jam it through again, all done while still in the air on a single jump and without hanging on the rim. This is a story repeatedly told but unconfirmed. It was refuted by Manigualt himself in a CNN interview available on YouTube when he called the reports of this feat rubbish, stating not even the goat could do that. I wonder why he said that. I believe he did it, and it has been said that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knew him and said he was the goat. Earl Manigualt played with Kareem and other players such as Earl Monroe & Connie Hawkins.
Like all the street basketball as of the day such as Jackie Jackson, Manigualt was reportedly able to touch the top of the backboard to retrieve quarters and dollar bills.
Manigualt passed away from congestive heart failure in 1998 at the age of 53. Although he never played in the NBA and only briefly played in college, the legend of Manigualt has spread far and wide and led to his play being glorified in magazines books and movies. In 1996 HBO aired a TV movie about Manigualt’s life entitled “Rebound: The Legend of Earl “The Goat” Manigault.
I sure would have loved to see him do that Double Dunk. I'm Gail Nobles, and you're listening to EPS.
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Streetball
Have you ever seen or heard of the double dunk? I've never seen a player double dunk before. Have you ever heard of a man that played basketball name Earl Manigualt? According to Wikipedia, he was an American Street basketball player who was nicknamed “The Goat” or “The Lip”. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players to never play in the NBA. To dunk a ball then dunk it in again before coming back down sounds hot I believe he was one of the greatest.
Earl was born in Charleston South Carolina and raised in Harlem New York. Manigualt was particularly famous for his leaping abilities on the basketball court much of his legend is unsupported playground myth including his signature move the double dunk. He allegedly would dunk the ball, catch it with his left hand, switch the ball to his right hand, bring it back around to the top of the basket and jam it through again, all done while still in the air on a single jump and without hanging on the rim. This is a story repeatedly told but unconfirmed. It was refuted by Manigualt himself in a CNN interview available on YouTube when he called the reports of this feat rubbish, stating not even the goat could do that. I wonder why he said that. I believe he did it, and it has been said that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar knew him and said he was the goat. Earl Manigualt played with Kareem and other players such as Earl Monroe & Connie Hawkins.
Like all the street basketball as of the day such as Jackie Jackson, Manigualt was reportedly able to touch the top of the backboard to retrieve quarters and dollar bills.
Manigualt passed away from congestive heart failure in 1998 at the age of 53. Although he never played in the NBA and only briefly played in college, the legend of Manigualt has spread far and wide and led to his play being glorified in magazines books and movies. In 1996 HBO aired a TV movie about Manigualt’s life entitled “Rebound: The Legend of Earl “The Goat” Manigault.
I sure would have loved to see him do that Double Dunk. I'm Gail Nobles, and you're listening to EPS.
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