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Gore Recalls His Years in NBA By PETER VECSEY Nashua, N.H.—Speaking at a fund-raising dinner in New Hampshire, Vice President Albert Gore Jr. revealed that as a young man he played 13 seasons in...
...I was a power forward for those great Los Angeles Clippers teams in the 1970s, before finishing my career with the Bucks,” Gore told a startled audience in Nashau...
...I recruited the NBA’s first Jewish player, Moses Malone...
...Moses, or Moishe as I called him, had to endure a lot...
...But in 1974 I invented dribbling, which cut down on the number of traveling violations, not only for myself but across the league...
...Gore continued, “There were a lot of racial epithets hurled at us...
...Gore recalled, “That book, and the all-nude musical based on it, described my life almost exactly, from my childhood as a dirt-poor Tennessee farmer all the way up to my public role as an internationally renowned poseur...
...revealed that as a young man he played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association...
...But my greatest accomplishment was not all the championship rings, or all the illegitimate children I sired, but my efforts to help integrate the league...
...Gore told the audience that even as a rookie he inspired a bestselling book about basketball, which ended up being titled Sports Hero: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
...See GORE on Page 102...
Vol. 4 • April 1999 • No. 28
