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For sure dude that would be amazing to have been able to meet him let alone be his son!

Absolutely lost it at the story of him dunking at 55 😂

'history at it's finest'...spoken like an utter ignoramus.

​@@simonlloyd7557 The bird doesn't fall far from the roost you pontificate upon, old man.

Basketball was a whiteman's sport

Probably not greed overwrites family tradition

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its his dad so he’d never, his great grandkids might sadly cuz they never met him

Very cool! Yup, he's listed on Wikipedia. You must be very proud. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1936_Summer_Olympics

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Needles

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Cassioli

5'9.3" to be precise. Maybe in Holland it is 6'.

@@anglosaxon5874 Hey, I'm average!

Say what you will about the Nazis, but they knew how to design a medal.

Back when art in metals was a thing

@@ccggenius nope just no... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Cassioli

@@ozwunder69 Did you hear about Italy-Germany......Axis? Guess not. Slept in High Schoool?

Definitely, especially considering his old dad went on to cure polio, cancer and abject homelessness throughout the Southwest U.S. and Appalachia; not to mention inventing space travel and the Internet. Amazing indeed.

@@situated4 That was a really dumb comment and is extra dumb because you liked it yourself.

100% right, I wouldn’t have been surprised to hear a value of $500k

Mines has to be the old guy who brought in a Navajo blanket.

easy to say, but when the family is not that wealthy its a great way to get some money. And also it would most likely land in a museum, so you can see it if you want

I think you’re right and I’m here for it!

And quite rightly so, what a story

If I were him I'd tell everyone within earshot about my dad. He's an icon.

Flex, yep. Way beyond a humble-brag here. ("Me, me, me. I, I, I ...")

Lern howe too spel

I'm just sitting here hugging my precious ankles lol you might as well be playing on ice!

they'll sell your watch collection one week after your death

@@trav-c137 lmfao

Dream on 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

True, it is well know that Hitler himself cast all the medals for that years Olympics.

@@pottingsoil He demanded the game be played outdoors on a clay court instead of indoors. So it was his fault the game devolved into mud wrestling. No one connected Hitler with the condition of the medal.

Hitler was the center for the German team in the Olympics in 1936

The more I hear about that guy..

Yeah he was kind of a dick by all accounts

Said no crack addict ever

@@SpaceHawk13 Granted....there are always exceptions..!!

Another good book about the 36 Olympics is "Unbroken", Louis "Louie" Zamperini's backstory is amazing.

definitely get it valued and sell it

I thought they only gave those to millennials.

About the same as your participation on u tube, lol :) NAR, a couple 1,000 maybe to the right person ?

Amen on that one. He and that basketball team, along with Jesse owens, showed up hitler. Thank goodness for their strength and courage to play in such a difficult place...

To be fair, he does take all the risk though.

Stuart Kelly I’m from England and I love our antiques roadshow! I didn’t realise there was a USA version! I’ve watched so much of the USA version on RU-vid it’s so fascinating

@@Jmf1190 watched it every Sunday evening without fail in my nan's though of course Keeping up appearances and last of the summer wine would be before

Not now he knows what it's worth

The game was held in appalling conditions, outdoors on a muddy clay court, which made dribbling almost impossible, in steady rain and with winds that "blew the ball around wildly".

Because it's his father, not some random collectible he found at a yard sale or bought at a shop because he liked it.

Dunk. Not dump.

Unlikely IMO. To reach 1M+ for an olympic gold medal we are talking about the ones won by Jesse Owens.

Im talking about how 36' was the first year basketball was included. which the US took the gold. It's historically significant and worth millions. IMO.

I get that, but historic significance sadly does not always reflect in the price of an item. An item is worth what people are willing to pay for it and for items like these, what people pay big money for are the great names and stories. The bigger the name and the greater the story behind it, the higher the price. That is why a beat up, partially burned guitar played by Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock is worth several millions while a much rarer and more historic significant guitar in better condition is only worth a fraction of that. And even though this medal has historic significance, barely anybody knows that Basketball was played for the first time in 1936, yet alone that the US won gold or the names of the players. When people hear "Basketball" and "Olympic", they do not think about 1936, they are thinking about the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona and the Dream Team. But what everybody knows about the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin are two names: Adolf Hitler and Jesse Owens. That was by far the biggest story of the 1936 games that overshadowed everything else and that is what people are willing to pay big money for. And that is why this medal will most likely never come even close to be as highly priced as Owens.

like the history of basketball being created and perfected to a point where it was accepted into the Olympics. Who's gold medal winner was the country that invented it. And is now one of the most popular sports in the world. Plot = 10/10 Price = 2.2. Million

In your dreams.