Word: kareem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...fight mobs go, the audience Friday night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...Huskies' size advantage was most evident when they got five or six cracks at the basket, or when their 6-ft, 3-in center (she looked a lot talier) was looping in sky books reminiscent of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Home remarked after the game that it's tough to win a game "when you're giving up four or five inches underneath...
...Celtics did it again yesterday afternoon, limiting the Los Angeles Lakers to a paltry 14 fourth-quarter points to key a 98-96 victory. Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 32 points and Jamaal Wilkes 29 for the Lakers in a losing effort. But the Celtics remain two games behind Philly in their division, as the Sixers squashed Seattle...