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Norm Peterson

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I don't know where to put this because it's really not about college basketball, considering that Darryl Dawkins was one of the few guys who jumped straight to the NBA from high school.  But it's not about Husker hoops, either.  It's just a general basketball topic of interest.

 

I think a lot of people talk about what might have been.  I just remember all the shattered backboards and thinking that was pretty cool.  If nothing else, he was entertaining.

 

I would have thought he was a lot older than 58. 

 

Rest in peace, big guy.

 

 

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I remember when he broke that first backboard, they put him on the Nightly News.  When I saw that highlight I did not know what to make of what I was seeing, I thought somehow a bunch of water had come out of the backboard or something...but then I realized what was going on.  What a foreign thing that was, the idea that someone could dunk with such power it would shatter the glass just amazed me.

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