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TIL that Darryl Dawkins "Chocolate Thunder", who was most famous for his two glass shattering dunks, was the first NBA player to play out of high school. He once claimed to be an alien from the planet Lovetron, where he spent the off-season practicing "interplanetary funkmanship" with gf Juicy Lucy.

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