Word: jabbar
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...comparison, basketball's only $2 million men are Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Neither the NFL nor the NHL can boast any yearly salaries higher than $2 million...
Time's passing was perfectly expressed this season by Jack Haley, the UCLA center, who admitted, "When I first came here, I didn't know that Lew Alcindor and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were the same person." Coach John Wooden's ten championships over twelve seasons -- the great '60s and '70s stewardships of Alcindor, Bill Walton and Sidney Wicks -- are distant memories. The last three dominators to frequent the Final Four -- Virginia's Ralph Sampson, Georgetown's Patrick Ewing and Houston's Akeem Olajuwon -- won one title among them. Other sports only talk of parity...
...Sampson was guarded by Jabbar from behind. The only other choice was Sampson on an ugly, off-balance sort of play...
Kareem Abdul Jabbar was guarding Sampson at the time, but offered relatively little pressure. Another year of running up and down the court and anchoring the Laker offense had left Jabbar--39 years old--only able to stand behind Sampson with his hands raised high, simply trying to avoid the foul...
...Sampson let his "shot" go, Jabbar just turned around, watched the ball do its dance on the rim, and prayed...