“Like all people my age I find the passage of time so startling,” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says with a quiet smile. Seated in the front row, from left to right: Bill Russell, Ali, Jim Brown and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. It made me think: ‘I wonder how many other NFL athletes are also aware?’ From there it has bloomed. He gave some money to the NAACP for legal funds, thank goodness.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest President Barack Obama awards the Medal of Freedom to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at the White House in November 2016. It’s amazing.”Most of all, in his eighth decade, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “loves to lose myself in my imagination.

Source: The Guardian December 08, 2017 18:22 UTC