Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbaris an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Associationfor the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP. In 1996,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth16 April 1947
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I enjoy seeing new places.
I wanted to play baseball!
I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family.
I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of the black inventors of the 19th century.
Yoga is somewhat hard to quantify in terms of benefits because you see them in all the injuries you don't get.
More whites believe in ghosts than believe in racism,
Islam is about finding your own space.
Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
Well, I'm a professional.
You're never really cancer-free and I should have known that.
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.
I try to do the right thing at the...
I don't really care who's doing drugs in the NBA as long as the scene isn't adversely affecting my team and teammates. I've known enough drug users-going as far back as grade school and the streets of New York-not to view them as pariahs or lost souls. I've certainly smoked more than my quota of weed.