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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(born
Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.
; April 16, 1947) is an American retired professional
basketball
player who played 20 seasons in the
National Basketball Association
(NBA) for the
Milwaukee Bucks
and
Los Angeles Lakers
. During his career as a
center
, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time
NBA Most Valuable Player
(MVP), a record 19-time
NBA All-Star
, a 15-time
All-NBA
selection, and an 11-time
NBA All-Defensive Team
member. A member of six
NBA championship
teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted
NBA Finals MVP
. In 1996, he was honored as one of the
50 Greatest Players in NBA History
. NBA coach
Pat Riley
and players
Isiah Thomas
and
Julius Erving
have called him the greatest basketball player of all time.
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