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Word: jabbar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Abdul-Jabbar Signs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

INGLEWOOD. Calif--The Los Angeles Lakers signed veteran center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the second-leading scorer in National Basketball Association history, to a multi year contract and acquired a backup for him in a trade yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

Terms of Abdul-Jabbar's pact were not disclosed, but the team said it gave him "the highest salary ever paid a Laker player...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 10/11/1983 | See Source »

July 3, 1972--Registering for summer school was an entirely new spatial experience for the students who stood in line next to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in town to study Arabic...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: In the Summer Swelter | 6/26/1983 | See Source »

...Abdul-Jabbar is more of an aesthete, a sky-hooker, not a slam-dunker, devastatingly shy. He has never been able to hide the shame of his height. Fourteen years ago, Abdul-Jabbar (né Lew Alcindor, U.C.L.A. '69) told Teammate Jon McGlocklin that he intended to play no more than five seasons of pro ball. Recently he ran into McGlocklin, who reminded him of this. It started Kareem reflecting on this job that he has only lately considered a profession. "It's getting to be scary," he says, "all the teammates and opponents who have come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Centers of Contention | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

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