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Remember, this is the school that sent Lew Alcindor to UCLA before he became Kareem Abdul Jabbar. It's usually one of the top five or ten teams in a city full of good high school basketball teams-not astoundingly great, but up there...
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...
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...
Even to himself, Kareem has a hard time explaining why he is still here, aside from his $1.1 million salary. "It's talent in the beginning and good fortune throughout, but desire maybe most of all," he says, as if it surprises him to realize he loves the game that much. "I just hung in there until in the last few years I came to appreciate the game as a career...
...Kareem's "angry period"-Lakers Coach Pat Riley's phrase-has passed. "He has been measured and judged on a different scale his whole life," says Riley. "He has always been expected to carry the team, carry the world. Basketball is a double-standard game. The referees will protect anyone else from the centers, but the centers have to protect themselves. They're penalized for how big or how strong or how good they are. Life must have always seemed unfair to Kareem, but I don't think he thinks of it that way so much...