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Abdul-Jabbar played in 95 percent of his team's regular-season games during his career, [114] including 80 or more games in 11 of his 20 seasons. Five times he played in all 82 games. [ 155 ] After claiming his sixth and final MVP in 1980, he continued to average above 20 points in the following six seasons, [ 1 ] including 23 points per game in his 17th season at age 38. [ 191 ]
Apr 2, 2014 · Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. on April 16, 1947, in New York City. The only son of Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a New York City policeman, and his wife, Cora, Alcindor ...
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was married to Habiba Abdul-Jabbar, born Janice Brown, and they have three children: Habiba, Sultana, and Kareem Jr. They divorced in 1978. He has another son, Adam, with his ex-girlfriend Cheryl Pistono. He converted to Islam when he was 24 and changed his name from Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
Dunking for the Lakers. Credit: Nick Ut/AP/REX/Shutterstock. Self-definition is a central theme of Abdul-Jabbar's latest project, a memoir for kids called Becoming Kareem. The book recounts his ...
Sep 15, 2024 · The New York Times - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Was the ‘Best Weapon in Basketball’ (Sep. 15, 2024) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born April 16, 1947, New York, New York, U.S.) is an American collegiate and professional basketball player who, as a 7-foot 2-inch- (2.18-metre-) tall centre, dominated the game throughout the 1970s and early ’80s.
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Apr 3, 2022 · Maddox: “Winning Time” picks up when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 32 years old. And to this point in his life, he’d really actually been through a lot. In 1967, Abdul-Jabbar sat alongside Jim ...
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Later this summer, Abdul-Jabbar will publish his tenth book, Writings on the Wall: a ranging collection of essays that weaves through race, politics, religion and aging, all with an eye to how we ...