Basketball Physics, with NBA Legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Slam dunks, skyhooks, three-pointers, bank shots and rebounds – Investigate the physics of basketball with host Neil deGrasse Tyson, NBA All-Time leading scorer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, comic co-host Chuck Nice, astrophysicist Charles Liu, and NBA analyst Jim Spanarkel. NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://www.startalkradio.net/all-access/basketball-physics-with-nba-legend-kareem-abdul-jabbar/ Photo Credit: Brandon Royal.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk.
0:04.0	Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:13.0	Welcome to the Hall of the Universe.
0:23.0	I'm your host, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
0:25.0	You're a personal astrophysicist.
0:27.0	And tonight we're going to explore the science of basketball.
0:31.0	And to do that, we are featuring my interview with NBA legend,
0:35.0	Karim Abdul-Jabal.
0:38.0	So let's do this.
0:43.0	All right.
0:45.0	Macobosts.
0:47.0	Comedian Chuck Nice.
0:49.0	How are you?
0:52.0	Tweeting at Chuck Nice, Comedian.
0:54.0	Yes.
0:55.0	Very nice. And also joining me is a friend and colleague, Charles Lou Charles.
1:01.0	An astrophysicist with the City University of New York at Staten Island.
1:05.0	Yes.
1:06.0	Long time friend of the show.
1:07.0	And why do we have another astrophysicist on a show about basketball?
1:10.0	Because Charles has a certain sort of geek's pertice in so many different things.
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