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David Robinson

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David Maurice Robinson was born on August 6, 1965 in Key West, Florida and is a former NBA, National Basketball Association basketball player, who is considered one of the greatest to ever play. A born-again Christian, Robinson is also an amateur musician who enjoys playing various instruments at home. His nickname is the Admiral, based on his service as an officer in the United States Navy. Robinson is now on staff at the Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, where Max Lucado is the pulpit minister.

When Robinson was young, his family moved many times, as his father was a Navy officer. After his father retired from the Navy, the family settled in Woodbridge, Virginia, where he attended Osbourn Park High School and played just one year of high school basketball. Robinson scored a 1320 and enrolled in the United State Naval Academy, where he majored in mathematics.

Robinson was an outstanding all-around athlete and chess player; during the physical tests that the Academy gave all of its incoming plebes, he scored higher on the gymnastics portions of the test than anyone in his class, except for the plebes who were slated to be on the Academy's gymnastics team. This was even more impressive because he was 6 foot 7 in 2.01 meter when he arrived at Annapolis. To put this in perspective, virtually all male gymnasts are well under 6 feet 1.83 meter tall and the service academies prohibit anyone taller than 6 feet 8 in 2.03 meter from enrolling. However, the academies do not drop students who grow past the limit after enrolling there, which would prove to be important to Robinson.

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