Artis Gilmore: Sleeping Giant of Florida, 1966

[The blog has already looked in on Wilt Chamberlain and Lew Alcindor as preps. Let’s take a peek at the young Artis Gilmore tucked away in the Florida panhandle town of Chipley. Al Levine, who would soon cover the ABA Floridians for the Miami News, took a jaunt up to Chipley in January 1966 to scope out this seven-foot Sleeping Giant who had yet to appe…