TIL that the slam dunk was banned in NCAA College Basketball from 1967-1976. Many people have attributed this to the dominance of the college phenomenon Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Some say

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TIL that dunking was made illegal in NCAA basketball from 1967 until 1976 because Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) was just too dominant when he was allowed to dunk. This was known

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