When Bob Pettit first dribbled a basketball, the sport of basketball was nowhere near what it is today. The NBA was barely known in the United States, with eight teams still far from big cities. For this reason, the one who ended up becoming one of the first legends of the competition, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93 near his native Baton Rouge, Louisiana, did not start playing until he was 16 years old. So little was known about the discipline at that time that he came to think that he was too tall and strange to shine in it.
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