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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American retired basketball player, coach, actor and author. Who born Ferdinand Lewis 'Lew' Alcindor on April 16, 1947. During his 20-year professional career in the NBA, from 1969 to 1989, he scored the highest points total of any player in league history (38,387), in addition to winning a record six Most Valuable Player Awards and six NBA championships. 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 at UCLA, he played on three championship teams, and his high school team won 71 consecutive games. In his NBA career, he played for the Milwaukee Bucks for six seasons and then with the Los Angeles Lakers for fourteen seasons.



Listed height 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m)
Listed weight 225 lb (102 kg)
Born April 16, 1947 (age 62)
New York


Nov. 10, 2009 -- Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar today announced that he has suffered from leukemia for nearly a year.Abdul-Jabbar, 62, has chronic myelogenous leukemia or CML. Once a fatal disease, oral medications now keep CML under control for 80% to 90% of patients, says leukemia expert Michael Deininger, MD, PhD, of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland. "For the vast majority of patients diagnosed in the chronic phase of the disease, the outlook is very good," Deininger tells WebMD. "The outlook for CML patients in 2009 is bright."