720 dunk

[jrb0yd]

hey guys i just wanna share this video... really unbelievable!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwuY0TWUCO0&search=720%20dunk

[caaprius]

wow. that was my first reaction. after watching replays my reaction was woooow

[Levenspiel]

really woow! :eek:

Do you know who is this guy? You put in Asian section without any relevance to the player, right?

[Trifilli]

really woow! :eek:

Do you know who is this guy? You put in Asian section without any relevance to the player, right?

There's the And1 logo on the floor and the jersey looks like And1 as well, guess he's from And1 :)

[Saskibaloia]

Of course it's "The Air Up There".
That's his nickname.
As we can see it seems as though I'm the only one interested in AND1.
I can see why you guys wouldn't be interested BESIDES old skool Bball is definitely my first preference.

[bobo81]

Ya'll can check out more at www.ballislife.com

Thank me later :D

[23_for_life]

Holy crap! I thought this was pretty much imposible, I guess I never thought of it. wwoooowwww so this guy is a street baller???

[Lietuvis]

Awesome, who is he and is he a good player? or just a high jumper?

[rikhardur]

Holy shit what a dunk :eek:

[GR8BBALL]

Sick dunk, is it and1 streetball show??...

[Big Fundermental]

amazing

[moose523]

i thought some of vince carters dunks would never be topped but that guy is amazing

[Karbo]

I watched that video months ago, at first i was amazed too... but when u watch it carefully its not a real 720 dunk. Its only 540 (1 & 1/2 turn). Look carefully position of his body and legs, when they star and when they finish.
Only player who did 720 was Eart "THE GOAT" Manigault! Big repspect for THE GOAT. Player who was way before his time (60's & 70's). Biggest streetball legend of New York City. Harlem's finest.

http://goat82.interfree.it/Materiale/goat60s1.jpg
http://goat82.interfree.it/Materiale/Goat-never-NBA.jpg
http://goat82.interfree.it/Materiale/paper%2003.jpg
http://goat82.interfree.it/Materiale/paper%2004.jpg


My favorite basketball movie of all time:
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117450/



Earl (The Goat) Manigault
Age: 53

New York City playground legend who battled the likes of Lew Alcindor and Connie Hawkins in the 1960s; his heroin addiction cost him a professional basketball career; was featured in a 1996 HBO movie; his domination of players at the 98th Street courts was so well known that it became nicknamed “Goat Park”; played college ball at Johnson C. Smith University but fought with the coach about playing time and returned to the Harlem courts; was jailed in 1969-70 for drug possession and again in 1977-79 for a failed robbery; he later kicked his drug habit and had been working at a neighborhood recreation and counseling center; of heart failure
Died: New York City, May 15, 1998

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Manigault

[Karbo]

The Goat's 720 dunk...

http://www.hoopsusa.com/f_viewtopic.cfm?trnbr=1469



Quoted from
http://members.fortunecity.com/mcgoat/goatpad.html


The Legacy

Earl was destined for the big show. During his two years at Benjamin Franklin High School, Goat was the team. In his Junior year, Earl led his team to the State Finals where he was to play head-to-head against New York's second best, Lew Alcindor in a nationally televised game. But days before the game, Earl got busted and ruined his chance at stardom. Kareem later understated that Goat was "The best player his size in the history of New York City." That wasn't the half of it.

Goat never backed down from any challenge. He once performed 36 reverse dunks in one game to win a $60 bet. He patented the Double Dunk, where Goat would dunk the ball with one hand, catch it with his other hand, and dunk it again before returning to the ground. Using his 52+ vertical, Earl was said to have the impossible when he did a 720. In the NBA, a 360 can win a dunk contest, and a 540 is almost unheard of, but Earl made yet another half of a revolution and still managed to slam the rock.

In the midst of Dr. J, Connie Hawkins, Herman "The Helicopter" Knowings, James "Fly" Williams, Joe "The Destroyer" Hammond, and Lew Alcindor, there emerges only one, the single greatest player that New York and the rest of the basketball world had ever known- Earl "Goat" Manigault.