Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (redirected from Lew Alcindor)

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (kərēm` ăb`dl jəbär`), 1947–, American basketball player, b. New York City as Ferdinand Lewis (Lew) Alcindor. At 7 ft 2 in. (218 cm), he led the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, to three national titles (1967–69). He was the National Basketball Association's number one draft pick in 1969, joining the Milwaukee Bucks as center. In 1970 he was rookie of the year, and in the 1970–71 season he led the Bucks to the championship. In 1975 he left Milwaukee to join the Los Angeles Lakers, with whom he played until his retirement in 1989. Abdul-Jabbar won the NBA's most-valuable-player honor six times and set the NBA all-time records in games played (1,560; since broken), points made (38,387), and field goals made (15,837). He was an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2000 and head coach of a minor-league basketball team in 2002. He has written, with Stephen Singular, A Season on the Reservation (2000), about his experience coaching Apache high-school basketball players, and also coauthored Black Profiles in Courage (2000) and Brothers in Arms (2004).

Bibliography

See his coauthored autobiographies (1987, 1990).

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Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem

 orig. (Ferdinand) Lew(is) Alcindor

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1987.

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(born April 16, 1947, New York, N.Y., U.S.) U.S. basketball player. During his college career at UCLA, the team lost only two games, and he led it to three national championships (1966–68). He then joined the Milwaukee Bucks; in 1975 he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. Standing 7 ft 1³⁄₈ in. (2 m 17 cm), he was the dominant centre of his time and helped his teams to six NBA titles. By the time he retired in 1989, he had scored a record 38,387 points. He also set the record for most field goals (15,837) and most minutes played (57,446). He was voted Most Valuable Player a record six times.

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Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem (b. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor) (1947–  ) basketball player; born in New York City. After leading the University of California: Los Angeles (UCLA) to three National Collegiate Athletic Association championships (1967–69), the 7'2" center played for the Milwaukee Bucks (1969–75) and Los Angeles Lakers (1975–89), where he was named the Most Valuable Player six times (1971–72, 1974, 1976–77, 1980) and established over 20 all-time records during his 20-year career. He scored the most career points of any player in history (38,387), scored the most playoff points (5,762), played the most games (1,560), and played the most years (20). He led the Bucks to one National Basketball Association title (1971) and the Lakers to five championships (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987–88).