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Who Is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

A dominant high school basketball player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was recruited to play at UCLA and led the Bruins to three national titles.

His dominance continued in the NBA, first for the Milwaukee Bucks, and later the Los Angeles Lakers.

Charles Barkley learned the hard way not to interrupt Kareem's reading time the first time they ever met.

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This Harlem Speaks Oral History with NBA Hall of Famer, Kareem Abdul Jabbar was conducted by Larrry Blumenfeld and Christian McBride Harlem.

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Abdul-Jabbar won six titles and six MVP awards, and finished as the league's all-time scorer. He retired in 1989 and is widely considered one of the greatest players in NBA history, and his talent was celebrated as early as high school.

Early Life and Education

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.

on April 16, 1947, in New York City. The only son of Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a New York City policeman, and his wife, Cora, Alcindor was always the tallest kid in his class.

Known as Lew Alcindor, by the age of nine he stood an impressive 5'8", and by the time he hit eighth grade, he'd grown another full foot and could already dunk a basketball.

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