Examples include Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlin, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Jordan and most recently LeBron James.
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Led by Magic Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the Lakers played electrifying fast break basketball and dazzled the fans.
"Plumlee did the best Kareem Abdul-Jabbar imitation I've seen in a long time, " he said.
The only three ahead of him now is Michael Jordan (32, 292), Karl Malone (36, 928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38, 387).
John Wooden's UCLA Bruins basketball teams, when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton roamed the floor, are harder to eliminate.
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We know about Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe and Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - where are guys like that now?
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 65, was one of the world's most famous basketball players.
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The Lakers all-star center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, sprained his ankle during game five and he was out for the remainder of the series.
For the Final Four, the former NBA player is joining Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as celebrity hosts for the NCAA official VIP pregame hospitality event hosted by PrimeSport.
Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed will lead up to 3, 000 kids who will dribble basketballs on a one-mile trek through downtown Atlanta on Sunday.
The offense that had been humming for so long managed only 17 points in the second quarter, and the defending champion Bucks beat them 120-104 behind 39 points from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The UCLA dynasty in the 1960s and 1970s under famed coach John Wooden was largely powered by two big men--Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Bill Walton.
Among the McBride concepts: "Jazz Meets Sports, " a program scheduled for next March that will feature his band, plus conversations with former Yankee and Grammy-nominated guitarist Bernie Williams plus NBA legend and jazz fan Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Then in 1969, Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) joined the Milwaukee Bucks from UCLA. Not only was Alcindor graceful and athletic, but he boasted a move called the sky hook, the most unstoppable shot the league had ever seen.
Kobe Bryant became the youngest player to reach 30, 000 points in an NBA career on Wednesday night, though it took him more games played to reach this feat compared to the other 4 men over the 30, 000 benchmark (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain).
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Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Michael Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five) and Wilt Chamberlain (four) have as many MVP awards, only Russell won four in a five-year span, and only Abdul-Jabbar went back-to-back twice, like James did with trophies in 2009 and 2010 and now again in 2012 and 2013.
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