Word: jabbar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly always won or lost at the center position. Julius ("Dr. J") Erving of Philadelphia and Earvin ("Magic") Johnson of Los Angeles lead their teams artistically, but Erving is a forward and Johnson a guard. It is around the 76ers' Moses Malone and the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the centers, that the current championship series, and the basketball universe itself, revolves...
...purposes of easy identification, Abdul-Jabbar, 36,7 ft. 2 in., six times the National Basketball Association's Most Valuable Player, is being called the "center of the '70s." Malone, 28, 6 ft. 10 in., soon to be named M.V.P. of the league for a third time, is the "center of the '80s." They are so unalike they are fascinating. Abdul-Jabbar is complex, Malone uncomplicated. When Moses won his first M.V.P. distinction, largely on the strength of his relentless offensive rebounding, he thanked his teammates for missing so many shots. "Kareem is the best player...
...private geneaologist discovers that Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59, Economics Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, and Los Angeles Laker star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are, in fact, distant relatives. "No one ever believed me when I said I have a great fade away jumper, and now they will," says an elated Galbraith. "We are all Keynestans now," intones the 6-foot, 9-inch Fox, tossing the College's 1983 budget into the wastebasket...
Gary Coleman and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The tiny dynamo of TV comedy and the towering inferno of the N.B.A. It was bound to happen. And so it does, early next month when the pair (mean height: 5 ft. 7 in.) team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
...upward stares when he toured the sights of China, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 35 and 7 ft. 2 in., was even more the center of attraction on the basketball court. To the members of the Chinese national basketball team, Jabbar and the other visiting U.S. pros must have looked like a Western version of the Great Wall. "They are the world's best," says Chinese Center Han Pengshan, 20, something of a tourist attraction himself at 7 ft. 3 in. "They have springs on their feet...