Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.

If you describe the achievements of the American basketball player Karim Abdul-Jabbar, then at a certain point you can simply get tired of repeating the word “best”. The athlete shone in the 1970-1980s of the last century and collected a lot of titles and individual awards. Karim has been repeatedly called the best basketball player of all time, and only Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain can compete for this title.

The basketball player was born in 1947 under the name Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. The boy was brought up in a simple Catholic family, where he was the only child. Mom worked in a store, and my father worked in the police. Already in childhood, he was distinguished by outstanding physical parameters: born with a height of 57 cm and a weight of 5.73 kg, Ferdinand had already reached 185 cm by the age of 10, and after 5 years his growth exceeded 2 meters.

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The tall guy became the star of the school basketball team, which he led to a 71-game unbeaten streak. While still a student at the Power Memorial Academy in New York, the athlete got used to the taste of victories and championships. The most prestigious US universities were ready to fight for a promising athlete, and he chose the University of California Los Angeles. The young man was not taken into the army because of his extremely high growth of 218 cm and a weight of 121 kg.

Even before he had time to play for the university's main team, Alcindor was already recognized as a new superstar, and by joining the National University Sports Association championship, Ferdinand led his team to the championship for 3 seasons in a row. During this period, UCLA basketball players won 88 fights out of 90. Even then, the athlete was awarded every imaginable personal award and was recognized as the best player of the year among students in 1969.

Back in his youth, in 1968, Alcindor first suffered a corneal injury while playing. Subsequently, he will still receive injuries, as a result of which he will be forced to perform in protective glasses. At the age of 21, the young man converted to Islam and received a new name Karim Abdul-Jabbar (“noble servant of the Almighty”), under which he began performing in 1971.

Alcindor met his future wife Janice Brown at the Lakers game during his final year at the University of California. In 1971, the girl married him and converted to Islam under the name of Khabib. The couple raised three children - daughters Khabiba and Sultan and son Karim, who followed in his father's footsteps and began to play basketball. In 1978, a divorce followed.

After that, another woman, Cheryl Pistono, appeared in Karim's personal life, who bore him a son, Amir.

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Abdul-Jabbar experienced health problems. He was often tormented by migraines, because of which he sometimes could not go to the site. In 2008, the athlete was given a disappointing diagnosis - cancer of the blood and bone marrow, but the renowned champion coped with the disease. In 2015, the basketball player underwent coronary artery bypass grafting.

In addition to basketball, in the life of Karim there was a place for filming in films and TV shows. As an actor, he first showed himself in 1978, starring in the film "Game of Death" starring Bruce Lee, and since then has participated in dozens of films. And the giant also writes books that are not only about biography and sports, Abdul-Jabbar also creates fictional texts, for example, detective stories dedicated to Mycroft Holmes - the elder brother of the great detective.

Throughout his career, Karim has represented only 2 clubs - Milwaukee Bucks (1969-1975) and Los Angeles Lakers (1975-1989), with whom he repeatedly achieved the NBA championship and was recognized as the most valuable player. He played 1560 matches in which he scored 38387 points. The invincible weapon was the skyhook - a unique throw that was almost impossible to block.

After finishing his professional sports career at 42, Karim moved on to coaching and scouting work. In 1995, the player was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

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Now Abdul-Jabbar remains on the list of the greatest basketball players, but has little to do with sports. He occasionally serves as a columnist for the Times, Esquire and The Huffington Post and participates in political talk shows. In 2019, the basketball player appeared in an episode of The Big Bang Theory.

The man maintains a page on Instagram, where he shares fresh photos. Here he also announces meetings with readers dedicated to the release of the book "Mycroft and Sherlock", co-authored with Anna Waterhouse.

1971, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988 - NBA Champion 1971, 1985 - MVP of the NBA Finals 1971-1972, 1974, 1976-1977, 1980 - Most Valuable Player in the NBA 1971-1972 - Most Scoring Player in the NBA Regular Season

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