The Los Angeles Lakers have been extremely busy since the team was bounced out of the NBA Playoffs earlier than they would have preferred. Their pursuit of center Dwight Howard paid off as the All-Star decided to join the Lakers via trade from the Orlando Magic. The team has also announced that they will retire […]
The National Basketball Association’s all-time scoring leader, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, is now a global cultural ambassador. The U.S. State Department announced Abdul-Jabbar’s appointment Wednesday. Ann Stock, assistant secretary of state for education and cultural affairs, says Abdul-Jabbar will travel the world to engage a generation of young people to help promote diplomacy. Stock says the appointment […]
It would be easy to say that a black man born in 1947, in the ghetto of uptown Manhattan, has the odds stacked against him. But Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stood tall—7 feet, 2 inches tall — in the midst of this troublesome time and place. In high school, he won three straight New York City Catholic […]
I hate to hear things like this but the good news is that Kareem has a positive attitude. NEW YORK (CNN) — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of the greatest college and professional basketball players of all time, says he has been diagnosed with a form of blood cancer. “I have chronic myeloid leukemia,” Abdul-Jabbar told CNN. […]
