I'm Gary Aurelie and I'm Chuck Nice.

This is playing with science.

Yes indeed.

Today's show is a bit different because we're featuring the first of our game-changer series,

a series where we take a single athlete and examine how they straight up broke the game

and rebuilt it to suit their own style.

Yeah, so to tip us off, we have chosen a man who nearly 30 years after he retired is still

the NBA's leading all-time point score, a man who owns six count them, six NBA titles

and acting career that most abroosly movie as well as the airplane movie.

What hasn't this man done?

We're going to find out, but there's not much he hasn't done.

The player who invented his own shot, the sky hook, have we worked it out yet?

For such an offensive weapon, it might surprise you to know he ranks still ranks third in the

NBA's all-time records for not just rebounds but blocks.

Yeah, ladies and gentlemen, the man who changed the game of basketball, we're talking none

other than Karim Abdul-Jabbar.

And to help us take a trip down memory lane, we ask Neil deGrasse Tyson to hook up with

the man himself while we wrap with former Laker superstars and teammates Michael Cooper

and Jamal Wilkes.

Yeah, we need to do this.

We need to do this.

And first, to kick things off, joining us by video call, we are super excited to have

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