Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 21: Former Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar speaks during a memorial service for Los Angeles Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss at the Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on February 21, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Buss died at the age of 80 on Monday following an 18-month battle with cancer. Buss won 10 NBA championships as Lakers owner since purchasing the team in 1979.
Connections
Quotes
I'm sure he wants to break a lot more records -- getting closer to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record and winning more championships. He will be back and with a vengeance.
When you’re at a dinner like that, and you look across the room and opposite you is The Big O, Oscar Robertson, you look to your left, there’s Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, you look further to your right and there’s Elgin Baylor, and then you have Jerry Lucas — hey, this is basketball heaven
We are thrilled to have the support of legendary basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to help us raise awareness about blood cancers and the important work being done by The Leukemia & Lymphoma SocietyMore quotes »
Newsday's coverage
-
LeBron James wins fourth NBA MVP award, AP source says
publicly announced this year's recipient. James will become the fifth player with at least four MVP awards, joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Michael Jordan , Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain .No one has ever swept every first-place vote in the NBA's MVP balloting. Read more »
-
King LeBron James might be one to dethrone Michael Jordan
last player with more than 200 attempts to shoot more than 64 percent in any given calendar month was Lakers Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in March 1983. And Abdul-Jabbar , you can bet, wasn't knocking down deep-twos and three-pointers the way James has Read more »
-
Jerry Buss, L.A. Lakers owner, dies at 80
a staggering array of talented players and basketball minds during his Hall of Fame tenure, from Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal and Dwight Howard."He was a great man and an incredible friend," Johnson tweeted.Few owners in Read more »
-
'Girls' on HBO is a generational phenom
that has turned Brooklyn into an all-white enclave for oversexed underachievers. In late January, former NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (of all people) made the case in a Huffington Post essay that the show had succumbed to tokenism this season by adding Donald Read more »
Around the web
-
The time Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wore his shorts backwards for an entire game
this newspaper clipping from a 1972 recap of a game between the Bucks and SuperSonics, then please explain to me why Kareem-Abdul Jabbar didn’t change his shorts at halftime. Even Kevin Seraphin isn’t that silly. You don’t change things up when you’re winning 11:47 AM from The Basketball Jones Read more »
-
Miami Heat's LeBron James and LA Lakers' Kobe Bryant Headline 2013 All-NBA Selections
was also chosen for the eighth consecutive season. Prior to being named to this year's first team, Bryant was tied with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elgin Baylor, Bob Cousy, Michael Jordan, Bob Pettit and Jerry West with 10 selections. Reuters divulged the members 5/23/13 from Sport Balla Read more »
-
Duncan makes All-NBA first team for 10th time, Parker named to second team
who turned 37 last month, is the oldest player to make the All-NBA first team since 38-year-old Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1985-86. Nicknamed the "Big Fundamental" early in his career by Shaquille O'Neal, Duncan averaged 17.8, 9.9 and from Kens5.com San Antonio Read more »
-
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Estranged Son Ripped His Father In A Surprising And Weird Reddit AMA
Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. He also acts, writes, and serves as a U.S. cultural ambassador. He’s generally seen as a good, if arrogant guy, as far as the general public can tell. How does his son Adam, whom Abdul-Jabbar had with a San from SportsGrid Read more »
-
Tim Duncan Earns All-Defensive Second Team Honors
and Kevin Garnett who have each been selected to 12 NBA All-Defensive Teams. Also trailing Duncan on the list are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (11) and Scottie Pippen (10). The NBA introduced the All-Defensive Team in 1968-69. In 2012-13, Duncan averaged 17.8 points, from NBA.com Read more »
