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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (/ k ə ˈ r iː m æ b ˈ d uː l dʒ ə ˈ b ɑːr / kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ æ l ˈ s ɪ n d ər / al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is an American former basketball player.
Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Bantam Books, 1983) is a best-selling book [1] by basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.Written with former Crawdaddy magazine editor Peter Knobler, it covers Abdul-Jabbar's career, his conversion to Islam, his social growth, and his feelings about American racial politics. [2]
Mycroft Holmes is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It involves Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character of Mycroft Holmes, the older brother of Sherlock Holmes, solving a mystery early in his career as a government official. It is Abdul-Jabbar's first adult novel. [1]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the Lakers' primary half-court option. The most important component of Showtime was the Lakers' fast break. [12] In a typical sequence, rebounders such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Kurt Rambis, and A.C. Green would quickly release an outlet pass to Johnson, who would race down the court and distribute the ball to players such as Jamaal Wilkes, James Worthy, Byron Scott, and ...
In 2024, Towns received the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion Award from the NBA for his social justice work. [121] The award announcement highlighted his work advocating for voting rights and specifically in support of Minnesota's state legislation that restored the right to vote to people who had formerly been incarcerated.
On the Shoulders of Giants: The Story of the Greatest Team You Never Heard Of is a 2011 historical sports documentary film directed by Deborah Morales, written by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. This film tells the story of the All-Black professional basketball team the New York Renaissance or Harlem Rens.
Mycroft and Sherlock: The Empty Birdcage is a mystery novel by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Anna Waterhouse. It is the third novel in their "Mycroft Holmes" series [1] utilizing Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters of Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born 1947), American basketball player; Kareem Al Allaf (born 1998), American tennis player who has played for Syria and the US; Kareem Amer (born c. 1984), Egyptian blogger; Kareem Burke (born 1974), American entrepreneur and record executive; Kareem Campbell (born 1973), American skateboarder