Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: One of my heroes died today. RIP Hank Aaron @MLB @MLBNetwork @Dodgers My memories are on camera for all to see mlb.com/video/kareem-a…
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Justin Kubatko: Kevin Durant last night: ✅ 30 PTS ✅ 9 REB ✅ 6 AST ✅ 60.1 TS% Durant has recorded nine games with 25+ PTS and a 60+ TS% this season. The only other player in NBA history to record at least nine such games in his first 11 games of a season is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1970-71, 9). pic.twitter.com/8ftQLWaJSE
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: I met MLK when I was a high school journalism student. His courage, conviction & compassion changed my life. He made me realize that good people don’t sit by & allow injustice to exploit marginalized people. We are only as good as we treat the most vulnerable among us. #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/lhm3IEJDn8
Hayes had not yet played a game in the NBA, but he was in Queens for the King event. And still a student, Alcindor, a Manhattan native who gained prominence for his social stances in support of boxer Muhammad Ali in 1967, was back in town. Dressed in a dashiki, he drew a crowd when he arrived. “Dr. King stood for holding America accountable for what it said it was about,” Abdul-Jabbar says. “We are supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. Dr. King wanted America to be held up, accountable to that aspiration.”
The NBA has started a full-court press with promotional efforts to encourage its players and the general public to take the vaccine for the coronavirus. “For myself and my family, I am going to take the COVID-19 vaccine,” former Los Angeles Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said in an NBA-sanctioned PSA. “To learn more about the vaccines, go to CDC.gov. Let’s do this together.”
Abdul-Jabbar’s endorsement of the COVID-19 vaccine is significant both because of his health history and his efforts to speak out on various social justice issues. Abdul-Jabbar, 73, was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia 11 years ago. He revealed in a recent article for WebMD that he has also had prostate cancer and heart bypass surgery. Abdul-Jabbar told USA TODAY Sports last year that the treatment for leukemia is “an ongoing thing.”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the dominant center, wants to be traded. There is nothing the Bucks can do. Sam Gilbert, Abdul-Jabbar’s longtime adviser, does the talking. “Kareem wanted to be traded,” Wayne Embry told the Los Angeles Times in 1987, recounting the night that started the build-up to a trade that shook the NBA 45 years ago. “Of course, it took us by surprise, even though I was somewhat suspicious. Sam further said Kareem wanted to be traded to New York. His second preference was Washington and his third preference L.A.”
