Deadspin: Kareem Abdul-jabbar

If Hillary Clinton Farted Near Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, This Is Probably What It Would Look Like

Barry Petchesky — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:20:00 EST

Abdul-Jabbar — bearing a copy of his new book — was in Washington today to be officially named a United States global Cultural Ambassador. He and Clinton posed for photos, the only one of which that matters at right. More »

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Read A Book Called Chess Tactics For Champions While At Bonnaroo

Emma Carmichael — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 15:30:00 EDT

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Add another three-week-old update on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's unheralded appearance at the Bonnaroo music festival earlier this month: he was reading a book called Chess Tactics for Champions while waiting for his panel. More »

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Can Fit Inside A Bonnaroo Port-A-Potty

Emma Carmichael — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 18:35:00 EDT

We have photographic evidence, courtesy of tipster Alex, that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar attended Bonnaroo this year — a fact some of you may have already known, depending on your hipness — and that he is both willing and able to use the common-folk Port-a-Potties at the annual four-day acid trip for our nation's young trust funders and/or hoopsters. Lest he go unrecognized (it seems likely that he went mostly unrecognized), Kareem was wearing his own Skyhook T-shirt as he waited to pee into a hole. Which, according to Alex's self-labeled "before and after shots," he did successfully. The legend lives on. More »

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Wants A Statue, Damn It

Barry Petchesky — Wed, 18 May 2011 14:40:51 EDT

Perhaps emboldened by Bill Russell and Jerry West finally receiving well-deserved statues, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is clamoring for an unmerited one of his own. More »

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Has Rare Form Of Leukemia

Dashiell Bennett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:33 EST

Tell your old man to drag chronic myeloid leukemia up and down the floor for the last year. The good news is that Kareem got a sponsorship deal with the company that makes his medication, so free drugs! [NYTimes/ESPN] More »

Kareem Lobbies For A Head Coaching Job, In 140 Characters Or Less

Tommy Craggs — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:00:08 EDT

Oft-overlooked Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is using Twitter to campaign for a head-coaching job in a league that let Tim Floyd lose 231 games: "[M]aybe a groundswell of support from my fans could open a door for me!" [Twitter, via TrueHoop] More »

Why Did Kareem Only Hustle In The Playoffs?

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:30:26 EDT

Can statistics prove that the NBA regular season is a tedious neverending slog that not even the lazy players can be bothered to care about? [Slate] More »

Photo Of The Day: Denim And Jugs

skeets — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:00:27 EST

I'll be honest with you: I have no idea when, where and why this photo was taken. Hell, I don't even know who that woman is, though I suspect Brooks does. (UPDATE: Yup.) I just wanted to post this to complete this spectacular Kareem garment collection. Done and done. More »

Kareem Takes A Large Dump On Someone Else's Lawn

Leitch — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:15:38 EDT

If you needed another reason that the late Wilt Chamberlain was countless times more interesting than all-time scoring champ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, we bring you this gossip item from today's New York Daily News. More »

"You Can, Like, Make Rope With It"

Leitch — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:15:36 EDT

We'd heard rumblings about it, but we hadn't been able to track down a photo. Fortunately, the geniuses at Free Darko found it, and we present it to you. It's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, attending the Lakers-Suns playoff game over the weekend, getting his Steven Seagal on. More »

Whatever Happened To ...

Leitch — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:00:54 EST

In case you were curious whatever happened to former Dolphins running back Karim Abdul-Jabbar, it turns out that he's teaching a fat-burning class at a Washington, D.C. gym. (Link via Cafe 227.) More »