About Earl Manigault
Earl Manigault was an American street basketball player who was nicknamed "the Goat" or "the Lip". He is widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players never to have played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Manigault set the NYC junior high school record by scoring 57 points in a game in the late 1950s. Manigault was particularly famous for his leaping abilities on the basketball court. Another states that the nickname started by confusion over Manigault's last name; people thought Manigault referred to himself as Earl Nanny Goat, so he became "The Goat".
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