Word: kareem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glee of a small boy on Christmas morning. He fled to Nevada in a vain attempt to escape California's community property laws during an acrimonious divorce and, suffering from a heart ailment, lost touch with his clubs. In his heyday, Cooke made the trades (Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), picked the draft choices, coached the coaches and chastised waiters in the Forum Club restaurant for allowing a guest's water glass to remain empty. The eye for detail paid off: the Lakers won the N.B.A. championship in 1972, and have remained one of the good...
...What health and beauty aid product has Kareem Abdul-Jabbar endorsed on television...
Pacific: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is great whenever he wants to be, a characteristic he holds in common with the extremely talented Los Angeles Laker team. If the Lakers decide to sit back and sun-bathe the season away either Portland (with or without a truckin' Bill Walton), Phoenix (with a healthy Alvan Adams), or Golden State (with the league's best backcourt in Phil Smith and Barry-compensation John Lucas) will win the street fight for king of the West. Seattle is going nowhere without Marvin Webster. San Diego already went somewhere, but the Clippers are still Buffalo to those...
Only last month the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar broke his hand by clobbering Milwaukee Buck Rookie Center Kent Benson, who suffered a mild concussion. After that incident, O'Brien formed a committee to examine proposals for reducing the violence in pro basketball. Among the possible rule changes: penalties, similar to those in hockey, that remove a player for specified times; the use of a third referee to help sort out infractions that occur in the confined area under the basket, where elbows fly and tempers flare. The people who usually lurk beneath the hoop are heavyweights; most N.B.A...
...Kareem used to come to my playground and I used to go to Kareem's," McLaughlin said yesterday, while reclining in his hotel suite overlooking Central Park...