Because his career lasted so long - from 1969 to 1989 - most people remember Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as an older player.
And at that point in his career, even though he was slower and bigger than he had been as a younger man, he had refined the skyhook into an unstoppable weapon.
But he was very, very different as a younger player, as this video shows.
First, he was quite thin. He didn’t really intentionally bulk up until the Celtics began to beat him up in the ‘80s.
And second, he was unbelievably agile.