Acclaimed NBA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 76, was rushed to hospital after breaking his hip following a fall at a concert in Los Angeles. Find out more here.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, also called (until 1971) Lew Alcindor, byname of Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr., (born April 16, 1947, New York, New York, U.S.), American collegiate and professional basketball player who, as a 7-foot 2-inch- (2.18-metre-) tall centre, dominated the game throughout the 1970s and early ’80s. (Read Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s Britannica essay on the New York Rens.) Alcindor played for Power Memorial Academy on the varsity for four years, and his total of 2,067 points set a New York City high-school record (that has since been broken). His offensive skill was so developed coming out of high school that the collegiate
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the latest target of Donald Trump, and a truce does not seem to be on the horizon. The GOP frontrunner did not like an op-ed from the