kareem abdul jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferndinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., on April 16, 1947 in New York City to Cora Lillian and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Sr. He was raised a Catholic and went to St. Jude school then attended Power Memorial Academy where he excelled at basketball. He lead his high school team to 3 New York City Catholic championships. His stats in high school basketball was phenomenal with a 71 game winning streak, 79--2 overall record, with 2067 points scored. He played 3 years with UCLA and 1 year with the University of Houston. From his early days of playing basketball through his college years his performance on the court was extraordinary.

Before being selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1969 NBA draft Lew Alcindor was offered 1 million dollars to play with the Globetrotters which he declined. At the same time he was the New York Nets 1st pick in the ABA draft. Alcindor told both teams he would only except one offer from each clubhouse and the NY Net offer lost out. With the Bucks, Alcindor became a star and ranked # 2 in scoring his first season. In 1971 Alcindor converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem played for the Bucks until 1975 when he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers.

Kareem played for the Los Angeles Lakers from 1975 until his retirement in 1985. His career accomplishments includes 6 time NBA Champion as a player and 1 time NBA Champion as an assistant coach. He was also 6 time NBA MVP, 19 times NBA All-Star, 5 time NBA All-Defensive First Team, the list goes on. This superstar basketball player's career stats are as follows, 38,387 points, 17,440 rebounds and 3,189 blocks.

After retiring from basketball as a player his love for the sport didn't end. Abdul-Jabbar was an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Clippers and the Seattle SuperSonics and in 2005 became a special assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. This talented individual was also somewhat successful in his acting career playing in movies and had guest appearances on television shows. He was in the movies "Airplane" and "Fletch" and did guest appearances on "Scrubs", "21 Jump Street", "Everybody Loves Raymond" and others. Abdul-Jabbar has proven himself to be a multi talented person on and off the court.

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