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Article: KENNY LYLES: GARFIELD HIGH, UW BASKETBALL CENTER.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 26, 2005
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Byline: DAN RALEYP-I reporter
He was once concerned with dunking, but now it's all about keeping things afloat.
Twenty-eight years ago, Kenny Lyles was a Garfield High School basketball player who watched with great anticipation as one of the game's most debated amateur rules was changed overnight prior to his senior season. Finally, dunks were permitted again on the high school and college levels after their banishment for nearly a decade, a knee-jerk reaction to both the arrival of a UCLA 7-footer named Lew Alcindor and a spate of broken rims.
For the powerful, 6-7 Lyles, it was an opportunity to make up for lost time.
"People ...