I was watching the Big 3 league this past weekend and I watched this small guy with a beard pull a ball fake and then bury a long three, and the CBS announcer needed to just say one word: “Mahmoud!”
That was followed by: “Kids, Google Chris Jackson.”
There is a whole generation who didn’t get to see what I saw back in 1988-90 when then Chris Jackson, now Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, made the Southeastern Conference arenas his playground. He, with the help of Ricky Blanton and Vernel Singleton among others, helped turn a 1988-89 team that was destined for failure by the media after several players had to sit out because of an old rule called Prop 48 (again, Google it), into an NCAA Tournament team.