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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]

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]

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]

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.

Another Reason Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is A Hall Of Famer [The Blowtorch]

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.

New neighbors of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were crying foul yesterday after the NBA great apparently dumped a huge pile of trash - complete with a pair of old size-17 sneakers - in the front yard of a home next-door to his Harlem brownstone. The sneakers, a Los Angeles Lakers ID card and a front row ticket for last spring's NCAA basketball championship game were buried amid the pile of flattened boxes dumped in a neighbor's front yard.

You think that's good? We love the next line: "There was also a Dear Kareem postcard from a masseuse, a blow gun and an empty cardboard box for a martial arts kendo sword." Sweet, a kendo sword! Badass!

Wilt made the gossip pages for bedding so many women that the number needed scientific notation. Kareem makes them for dumping trash on a neighbor's lawn. Hey, you try to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.

Curbing Kareem [New York Daily News]

"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.

From A Distance [Free Darko]
The Jacket Speaks [The Basketball Jones]

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.)

We understand that this is common and not the most newsworthy matter — a former football player teaching soccer moms how to lift their legwarms and the proper pronounciation of "pilates" — but for some reason, we were always fascinated with the career of Karim. Mostly, we were fascinated by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's hatred of the youngster. Kareem sued Karim for "sponging" off his name — the young Karim had been given the name after converting to Islam in 1995 — and was successful, forcing Karim to use "Abdul" on the back of his jersey. Eventually he changed his name to Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar; meanwhile, the elder Kareem still has his prescription for medicinal marijuana, which is a terrible fat-burning regimen.

Where Are They Now? Karim Abdul-Jabbar [Cafe 227]
Pot Smoker Of The Month: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [ClearTest]