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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born April 16, 1947 as
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr) is considered
one of the greatest American basketball
players of all time. Abdul-Jabbar played
basketball professionally for twenty years,
from 1969 to 1989. In that time, he scored
38,387 points -- professional basketball's
highest career total. He was known for his
"Skyhook" shot, which was famously difficult
to block because it put his 7 ft-2 in body
between the basket and the ball. His on-court
success had an early start. In college, he
played on three championship teams, and his
high school team won 72 consecutive games. As
a pro, he won a record six Most Valuable
Player Awards.
The Harlem Globetrotters offered him $1
million to play for them, but he declined,
and was picked first in the 1969 NBA Draft by
the Milwaukee Bucks, only in their second
season, who won the coin-toss for first pick
over the Phoenix Suns. He was also chosen
first overall in the 1969 American Basketball
Association draft by the New York Nets. The
Nets believed that they had the upper hand in
receiving Kareem's services because he was
from New York; however, when Kareem told both
the Bucks and the Nets that he would accept
one offer only from each team, the Nets bid
too low. Thus, Kareem chose the NBA over the
struggling ABA.
Lew Alcindor's entry into the NBA was timely,
as center Bill Russell had just left the
Boston Celtics, and Wilt Chamberlain, though
still effective, was then 33 years old.
Alcindor's presence enabled the 1969-70 Bucks
to claim second place in the NBA's Eastern
Division with a 56-26 record (up from 27-55
the previous year), and he was an instant
star, ranking second in the league in scoring
(28.8 ppg) and third in rebounding (14.5
rpg), for which he was awarded the title of
NBA Rookie of the Year.
With the addition of Oscar Robertson,
Milwaukee went on to record a league-best 66
victories in 1970-71, including a then-record
of 20 straight wins. Alcindor was awarded his
first of six NBA Most Valuable Player Awards,
along with his first scoring title (31.7
ppg). In the playoffs, the Bucks went 12-2
(including a four-game sweep of the Baltimore
Bullets in the NBA Finals) and Alcindor was
named Finals MVP.
On defense, Abdul-Jabbar maintained a
dominant presence. He was selected to the NBA
All-Defensive Team eleven times. He
frustrated opponents with his superior
shot-blocking ability, denying an average 2.6
shots a game.
Abdul-Jabbar was well known for his trademark
"sky hook", a hook shot in which he bent his
entire body (rather than just the arm) like a
straw in one fluid motion to raise the ball
and then release it at the highest point of
his arm's arcing motion. Combined with his
long arms and great height in which he stood
7 feet 2 inches tall, the sky hook was nearly
impossible for a defender to block without
goaltending.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Fredrick Ferdinand
Lewis Alcindor, Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an
American athlete and retired professional
basketball player, widely considered one of
the greatest NBA players of all time. During
his 20 years in the NBA from 1969 to 1989, he
scored 38,387 points -- the highest total of
any player in league history -- in addition
to winning a record six Most Valuable Player
Awards. He was known for his "Skyhook" shot,
which was famously difficult to block because
it put his 7' 2" body between the basket and
the ball. Abdul-Jabbar's success began well
before his professional career; in college,
he played on three championship teams, and
his high school team won 71 consecutive
games.
Abdul-Jabbar (Alcindor at the time) grew up
in the Inwood neighborhood in Manhattan, New
York City, the son of Cora Lillian, a
department store price checker, and Ferdinand
Lewis Alcindor, Sr., a police officer and
jazz musician. College took him to Los
Angeles, and he returned there for 14 seasons
in the NBA after six seasons with the
Milwaukee Bucks. In 1971, several years after
converting to Islam, he changed his name to
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Since retiring from
basketball, he has been known as a successful
coach and author, and a sometimes actor.
Bruce Lee (traditional Chinese: 李小龍;
simplified Chinese: 李小龙; pinyin: Lǐ
Xiǎolóng; Cantonese Yale: Léih Síulùhng;
November 27, 1940 -- July 20, 1973) was an
American-born martial artist, philosopher,
instructor, martial arts actor and the
founder of the Jeet Kune Do combat form. He
was widely regarded as the most influential
martial artist of the twentieth century and a
cultural icon. He was also the father of
actor Brandon Lee and of actress Shannon Lee.
Lee was born in San Francisco, California and
raised in Hong Kong. His Hong Kong and
Hollywood-produced films elevated the
traditional Hong Kong martial arts film to a
new level of popularity and acclaim, and
sparked the first major surge of interest in
Chinese martial arts in the West. The
direction and tone of his films changed and
influenced martial arts and martial arts
films in Hong Kong and the rest of the world
as well. Lee became an iconic figure
particularly to the Chinese, as he portrayed
Chinese national pride and Chinese
nationalism in his movies. He primarily
practiced Chinese martial arts (Kung Fu).
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