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- Like other street basketballers of the day such as Jackie Jackson, Manigault was reportedly able to touch the top of the backboard to retrieve quarters and dollar bills, part of "elaborate innovations and tricks" elite street players of the era performed before games to help build their reputations.
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Like other street basketballers of the day such as Jackie Jackson, Manigault was reportedly able to touch the top of the backboard to retrieve quarters and dollar bills, part of "elaborate innovations and tricks" elite street players of the era performed before games to help build their reputations.
Feb 12, 1989 · Legends abound of the truly great leapers who could touch the top of the board. Almost always the feat involves money--claims that the player could grab a dollar bill off the top of the...
I think that's commonly accepted to be a wives tale though. 6' Manigault would have to have a 60" vert (factoring in an additional 2ft standing reach) to touch the top (13') of the backboard. A quick google shows most of the bigger/well known dunkers were all mid to high 40s.
Then was the legend of Manigault jumping so high that he once snatched some change from the top of the backboard.
Jun 18, 2015 · A feat often credited to Manigault was “making change” on the backboard, which supposedly involved him leaping up high enough to remove a dollar bill placed on top of the basketball backboard and replacing it with a stack of quarters.
Jun 19, 2023 · Just 6-1, he may have had the highest vertical in the history of the game. Reportedly he could touch the top of the backboard, which almost no one can do. Jabbar talks of his phenomenal...
Aug 8, 2021 · Manigault paid kids to climb the pole and put cups on top of the backboard. Then he`d leap and pull them down. He`d dunk the ball, catch it coming through the net and dunk it again before...
