http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/playoffs/2004-06-03-hamilton-runs_x.htm
He’s 6’7 and runs a 5:00 minute mile. He was a mile runner in high school and just slaughtered people. If you are watching the NBA finals, and see him, he can haul it. His paternal grandfather was a distance runner, and an uncle on his mother’s side of the family ran in the Penn Relays.
You don’t slaughter people by running a 5:00 mile in high school, maybe junior high. In Indiana, running a 5:00 mile won’t even get you into sectionals. His running ability is nothing to brag about.
Oh, I didn’t notice. His grandfather was a distance runner. Now that is just amazing.
Sweet, wonder if that mask makes him more Aero…?
His running ability may not be anything TOO special, but he makes millions running up and down a court throwing a ball into the hoop. AND he has embarrassed Kobe the whole series, completely dominated him. the Pistons have dominated the Lakers. Payton should retire as should Malone. This is the end of the Lakers, a new team will be built around Shaq next year…Kobe may become a Denver Nugget.
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I’m a Laker fan (from soCal), and I LOVE IT that the Pistons have won the title.
Teamwork, dedication, honesty. Pistons have it, Laker’s don’t even know what those words mean. This is a great story.
Seems like they meant that he runs a 5 minute mile now in his workouts (although I really have no idea what they meant, the writer probably didn’t either), maybe he was faster in high school?
No, they meant high school. I read about it a few days ago, and it specified it was when he ran high school track.
Ok, then I agree, I doubt he slaughtered anyone in high school. Why do they bother writing something like “He was a miler on his high school track team and never lost a regular season meet, even though he never practiced because of basketball.”? Seems silly to me.
At 6’7" …with that stride length…heck, he probably walks 5’ miles 
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a kid at my daughter’s grade school track meet ran a 5:01 mile (8th grader)
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I heard an interview with him and he said he could run under 5 minutes in high school but didn’t specify how much under 5. He also said that he is much faster now.
I’m sure his HS times weren’t anything to get excited about, but if he could run 4:30 - 4:45** **now, that would be pretty damned impressive for a 6’7" NBA guy.
Booth:
At district finals in Cleveland one year we had 3 guys under 4:40. So, he had to be running in a pretty small district or the competition was mediocre. Today in high school a 5 minute mile is pedestrian.
What isn’t pedestrian is a guy who is 6’7" running a 5 minute mile. That IS very unusual. He is also one skinny dude. By the way, I like his style and work ethic.
-Robert
On the other hand, how many 4 minute milers can post up Shack and tomahawk dunk?
Everyone else seems to have missed it, but you hit the nail on the head. There are few of us here who could go out the door today and run a 5:00 minute mile and we do this running stuff every day. To be a 6’7" NBA player who rarely gets to do distance training and have that ability is impressive.
I imagine there are a ton of guys in the NBA who can run 75 seconds for a 400, but very few guys who can do 4 of them back to back.
I’m not as in the know about track and field as you guys. Or youth standards.
As far as going out and running a mile in 5 minutes, or a mile under 5 minutes, I’m trying to conceive of external circumstances which might motivate me to go 5 minutes per mile, or attempt to go at such breakneck running speed.
They would have to be involuntary and frightening and motivating.
The only possible situation I think could get me close to that is if I were kidnapped and held at gunpoint by a bunch of hoodlums, and then whisked out to a track, and were forced to watch a bunch of sick murderes shoot people, “live,” who didn’t run a mile under 5 minutes.
Even under that pressure, I might could break 6:50 or something, and thereafter have a heart attack, if I didn’t already have one on lap 3, or have kidney failure—I definitely would be bleeding like a broken horse, by lap 2—and then, afterwards, I would of course be shot. It would be something close to Dustin Hoffman’s running in Marathon Man.