Word: jabbar
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...pages of a Western girlie mag that he smuggles into town on his first trip home. By the time he's ready to graduate, Chen is on hand as a translator to witness the NBA's first visit to China, and is sent to track down Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who has gone missing in Tiananmen Square...
...stopper to use in neutralizing Kobe, and Byron Scott rounding off the best offense in NBA history with his assassin-like three pointers, a 6’9 Magic Johnson would have a field day running circles around the 6’1 Derek Fisher. Shaq would dominate Abdul-Jabbar, who weighs about 60 pounds less, but that would be the only bright spot for the current Lakers. Worthy could double-team O’Neal often, without having to worry about his defensive assignment, Samaki Walker, being an offensive threat. Pat Riley could finally best his arch-nemesis Phil...
...Abdul Jabbar wants to die. Squatting beside his wife's unconscious body, his 12 children and grandchildren huddled around him in a tiny, open tent of sticks and stitched sacks, the 65-year-old brushes away tears as he describes his prospects in the coming Afghan winter. Freezing rain and snow will cover the Dehdadi camp on the southern outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, home to 15,000 refugees. Temperatures will drop to 5[degrees]F, and the filthy roadside ditch from which the refugees fetch their gray fetid water will freeze...
Already the ground is too hard to dig graves. Instead, the bodies of those killed by starvation, dehydration, disease or exposure are covered with earth and weighed down with stones against dust storms. During the summer, Abdul Jabbar sold for food all his family's clothes that weren't rags. Now his children can't sleep because of the cold, unless, like his wife beside him, they faint from hunger. So Abdul Jabbar hopes death will end their agony--and quickly, as it did for his son Jaan Mohammed, 12, who stepped on a land mine while collecting firewood...
...BILL RUSSELL, Celtics legend If Jordan's comeback falls as flat as Magic Johnson's talk show, Russell may edge back into serious contention for the unofficial greatest NBA player ever. The field is muddled, but Jordan, who isn't the greatest scorer (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), rebounder (Wilt Chamberlain), floor leader (Magic Johnson) or winner (Russell) is considered the best ever because he blended those skills better than anyone...