Drug Possession: Earl “the Goat” Manigault
Drug Possession: Earl “The Goat” Manigault
Earl Manigualt was born in South Carolina but raised in Harlem the basketball boro. Manigualt received the nickname “The Goat” by a man who was gambling on the pickup games who couldn’t pronounce his last name.Manigault set the NYC junior high school record by scoring 57 points in a game in the late 1950s. In 1996, HBO aired a TV movie about Manigault’s life entitled Rebound: The Legend of Earl “The Goat” Manigault, starring Don Cheadle in the title role. He was the star of his high school team and seemed destined for greatness in the National Basketball Association. Manigault was expelled from school for smoking marijuana. He finished high school at a private academy in North Carolina. Manigault was particularly famous for his leaping abilities on the basketball court, including his signature move – the double dunk. He 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. Rumor has it he once dunked two-handed during a game from near the foul line over two players much taller than himself (Sahil Muliyil 6’8″, David Urenda 6’9″) Earl had a deadly long-range shooter as well. Manigault played with some of the best players of his day, such as Earl Monroe, Connie Hawkins, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the latter of whom went as far as calling Manigault the greatest player he had ever seen. Manigault returned to Harlem and …
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