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Paul Knepper

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Author of MOSES MALONE: THE LIFE OF A BASKETBALL PROPHET and THE KNICKS OF THE NINETIES; Host of New Books in Sports Podcast; Sharing my love of hoops history through photographs. pauljknepper.com

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Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · Aug 19

My book Moses Malone: The Life of a Basketball Prophet will be out November 1 and is available for pre-order. I'm happy to do any podcasts or interviews about the book. a.co/d/43vHnP5

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Bobby Jones and Julius Erving celebrating the 76ers' championship in 1983.

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Keith Van Horn posting up Dennis Rodman.

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LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, and Dwyane Wade on draft night in 2003.

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Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 18h

Jack Ramsay and Ernie DiGregorio

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Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 21h

Keith Wilkes and Bill Walton

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He is the best player in basketball for the most elemental of reasons - he tries harder than anyone else. His work ethic would shame Pete Rose.” - Bill Lyon on Moses Malone

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Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 22h

Bill Russell could jump.

Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

Kobe Bryant and Clayton Kershaw

Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

John Stockton, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Karl Malone, and Chuck Daly

Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

By the way, Moses spent a lot of time playing against inmates in the local penitentiary when he was in high school. (5)

Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

I made a bet with the other warden that you couldn’t grab 40rebounds in 40 minutes. If you can do it, I’m paroling you. You have my word.’ Now imagine watching that guy rebound. That was Moses from 1978 to 1983.' (4)

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Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

(to the point that it always seemed unfair.) Imagine this guy loved crashing the boards, lived for it, couldn’t get enough of it. Then imagine the warden told him before an organized playground game against inmates from another prison, ‘We’re playing four 10-minute quarters. (3)

Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine the game included one inordinately good rebounder: perfect instincts, light on his feet, supertough, superphysical, uncanny rejumpability. Imagine this guy had all kinds of positioning tricks and always seemed to know where the ricochets were going (2)

Paul Knepper @paulknepper.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to share some stories & quotes about Moses in the lead up to my book launch on Nov. 1. This one is from
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' book. "The best way to describe Moses: 'Imagine a quality prison basketball game in the playground where players had to maim someone to draw a foul. (1)