Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s influence on today’s game is fading, despite being one of the NBA's greatest players of all time. According to him, there’s just one person to blame: Warriors star Steph Curry.
While speaking to reporters Wednesday in Oakland, the NBA’s former all-time scoring leader joked that nobody asks him how to do a skyhook anymore because of the darn arc 23 feet from the basket.
“They’ve forgotten about anything that does not say '3 points' on it,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “I’ve got to go across the bay and slap Steph Curry for changing everybody’s mind about how to play the game.