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  1. On his 22nd birthday, Charles showed
  2. the NBA why the word power belongs
  3. in power forward. That day, he dunked
  4. the ball so hard and with so much force,
  5. he moved the 2,240-pound basket
  6. support six inches to the right! A
  7. Philadelphia 76er team official later
  8. said, "The last time that support was
  9. moved, it was by a forklift." 
  10.  
  11. The next season, in a game against the
  12. Portland Trail Blazers, Charles went on
  13. a one-man fast break that ended with a
  14. dunk so powerful that he pulled down
  15. both the rim and the new collapsible
  16. backboard at PhiladelphiaΓÇÖs Spectrum
  17. arena.