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April 1. 6, 1. 94. New York City, New York. Nationality. American. Listed height. 7 ft 2 in (2. Listed weight. 22.

Career information. High school. Power Memorial(Manhattan, New York)College. UCLA (1. 96. 6–1. NBA draft. 19. 69 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall.

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Selected by the Milwaukee Bucks. Playing career. 19. Position. Center.

Number. 33. Career history. Milwaukee Bucks. 19. Los Angeles Lakers. Career highlights and awards. NBA champion (1. 97.

NBA Finals MVP (1. NBA Most Valuable Player (1. NBA All- Star (1. All- NBA First Team (1. All- NBA Second Team (1. NBA All- Defensive First Team (1.

NBA All- Defensive Second Team (1. NBA Rookie of the Year (1. NBA scoring champion (1.

NBA rebounding champion (1. NBA blocks leader (1. No. 3. 3 retired by Milwaukee Bucks. No. 3. 3 retired by Los Angeles Lakers. NBA's 5. 0th Anniversary All- Time Team.

NCAA champion (1. NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1.

National college player of the year (1. Consensus first- team All- American (1. No. 3. 3 retired by UCLAAs assistant coach: Career NBA statistics. Points. 38,3. 87 (2. Rebounds. 17,4. 40 (1. Blocks. 3,1. 89 (2. Stats at Basketball- Reference.

Basketball Hall of Fame as player. College Basketball Hall of Fame.

Inducted in 2. 00. Kareem Abdul- Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 1. American retired professional basketball player who played 2.

National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul- Jabbar was a record six- time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 1. Watch West Of Memphis Mediafire.

NBA All- Star, a 1. All- NBA selection, and an 1.

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 1. 99. 6, he was honored as one of the 5. 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.[1][2][3][4][5]After winning 7.

New York City, Alcindor attended college at UCLA, where he played for coach John Wooden on three consecutive national championship basketball teams and was a record three- time MVP of the NCAA Tournament.[6] Drafted by the one- season- old Bucks franchise in the 1. NBA draft with the first overall pick, Alcindor spent six seasons in Milwaukee.

After winning his first NBA championship in 1. Muslim name Kareem Abdul- Jabbar at age 2. Using his trademark "skyhook" shot, he established himself as one of the league's top scorers. In 1. 97. 5, he was traded to the Lakers, with whom he played the last 1. NBA championships. Abdul- Jabbar's contributions were a key component in the "Showtime" era of Lakers basketball.

Over his 2. 0- year NBA career his team succeeded in making the playoffs 1. NBA Finals 1. 0 times. At the time of his retirement in 1.

Abdul- Jabbar was the NBA's all- time leader in points scored (3. He remains the all- time leading scorer in the NBA, and player with most career wins. He is ranked 3rd all- time in both rebounds and blocks. In 2. 00. 7, ESPN voted him the greatest center of all time,[7] in 2. NBA history (behind Michael Jordan).[9] Abdul- Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best- selling author.[1. In 2. 01. 2, he was selected by Secretary of State. Hillary Clinton to be a U.

S. global cultural ambassador.[1. In 2. 01. 6, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President. Barack Obama.[1. 3]Early life and high school. Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.

New York City, the only child of Cora Lillian, a department store price checker, and Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Sr., a transit police officer and jazz musician.[1. He attended a Catholic high school in Manhattan. Alcindor was unusually large and tall from a young age. At birth he weighed 1. By the eighth grade (age 1. He would eventually reach his full height of 7 ft 2 in (2. NBA at age 2. 2. From an early age, Lew Alcindor began his record- breaking basketball accomplishments.

In high school, he led coach Jack Donahue's Power Memorial Academy team to three straight New York City Catholic championships, a 7. This earned him a nickname—"The tower from Power".[2.

His 2,0. 67 total points were a New York City high school record.[1. The team won the national high school boys basketball championship when Alcindor was in 1.

UCLAAlcindor played on the UCLA freshman team in 1. From 1. 96. 7–6. 9, he played on the varsity under head coach John Wooden, contributing to the team's three- year record of 8. University of Houston in which Alcindor had a not fully healed eye injury (see below), and the other to crosstown rival USC who played a "stall game" (i. In his first college game, Lew set a UCLA single game record with 5. Alcindor with the reverse two hand dunk in a game against Stanford.

During his college career, Alcindor was twice named Player of the Year (1. First Team All- American (1.

NCAA basketball champion teams (1. Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA Tournament (1.

Naismith College Player of the Year in 1. In 1. 96. 7 and 1.

USBWA College Player of the Year which later became the Oscar Robertson Trophy. Alcindor became the only player to win the Helms Foundation Player of the Year award three times. The 1. 96. 5–6. 6 UCLA Bruin team was the preseason #1. But on November 2. Alcindor defeated the varsity team 7. Pauley Pavilion.[2. Alcindor scored 3.

Alcindor had considered transferring to the University of Michigan, because of unfulfilled promises from recruiting. UCLA player Willie Naulls introduced Alcindor and teammate Lucius Allen to businessman Sam Gilbert, who convinced the pair to remain at UCLA.[2.

The dunk was banned in college basketball after the 1. Alcindor's dominant use of the shot.[1. It was not allowed again until the 1.

While playing for UCLA, Alcindor suffered a scratched left cornea on January 1. Cal game when he was struck by Tom Henderson of Cal in a rebound battle.[2. He would miss the next two games against Stanford and Portland.[1. This happened right before the showdown game against Houston.

His cornea later would be scratched again during his pro career, subsequently causing him to wear goggles for protection. Conversion to Islam and 1. Olympics boycott.

In the summer of 1. UCLA, he took the shahada twice and converted to Sunni Islam, though he did not begin publicly using his Arabic name until 1. Alcindor boycotted the 1. Summer Olympics by deciding not to join the United States Men's Olympic Basketball team that year, protesting the unequal treatment of African- Americans in the United States.[2. He was one of only 4 players to have started on 3 NCAA championship teams; the others all played for Wooden at UCLA: Henry Bibby, Curtis Rowe and Lynn Shackelford.

Along with playing basketball, Alcindor earned a Bachelor of Arts with a major in history from UCLA in 1. In his free time he practiced martial arts.

He studied Jeet Kune Do under Bruce Lee.[2. Game of the Century. Alcindor performing ceremonial net cutting at Freedom Hall after unprecedented third- straight national title in 1. On January 2. 0, 1. Alcindor and the UCLA Bruins faced coach Guy Lewis's Houston Cougars in the first- ever nationally televised regular- season college basketball game, with 5.

Astrodome. Cougar forward Elvin Hayes scored 3. Alcindor, who suffered from a scratch on his left cornea, was held to just 1. Houston won 7. 1–6.