Nba, Spud Webb turns 60: the story of a ‘little champion’
One of basketball’s most famous and controversial characters turns 60. In 1986, he surpassed physics and his 168 centimeters with this extraordinary win in the slam dunk contest over teammate Dominique Wilkins
LHis story is more than a biographical and sporting story that may have seemed bizarre and paradoxical to others; much more than a record and a statistic pre-eminence; far beyond the “I want” of many individuals to whom the world hastens to answer “But you can’t” puts everything back in the context of the “certainties” of those who think that life, as Eugenio Montale wrote, only exists from traps, the contempt of those who believe that reality is what you see
