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    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (/kəˈriːm æbˈduːl dʒəˈbɑːr/ kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ælˈsɪndər/ al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is...
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  • Borenstein and Jim Hecht for HBO, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman. The...
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    changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Riley, who would go on to coach Abdul-Jabbar with the Los Angeles Lakers. In 1991, Riley called it "one of...
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    run-and-gun style of basketball. Led by Magic Johnson's passing skills and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring, the team relied on fast breaks and won five NBA...
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    Retrieved 2024-06-13. Jeff Pearlman (4 March 2014). Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Penguin. ISBN 978-0698148611...
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  • Bears running back. In March 2014, Pearlman released Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, a biography of the...
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    HBO pilot based on Jeff Pearlman's non-fiction book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay directed the...
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    2012. Retrieved June 11, 2022. Perlman, Jeff (2014). Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Gotham Books. pp. 396–7...
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    by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman. Other...
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  • Retrieved January 3, 2022. Perlman, Jeff (2014). Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Gotham Books. p. 397...
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    for the Pistons throughout the next season as well. Following the series, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced his retirement at 42, after 20 years with the NBA...
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  • Lakers went on a 40–9 run over the game's next 11 minutes. Wilkes scored 10, Kareem and McAdoo scored 8 each, Nixon and Cooper scored 7 each, and Nixon had...
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  • Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were all selected to play in the 1988 NBA All-Star Game held in Chicago. Pat Riley was chosen to coach the...
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    through the season. Both moves helped alleviate the load off of the aging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who turned 40 during the playoffs. A.C. Green supplanted Kurt...
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  • Fernandez 2 Isaiah Garcia 3 Keston Julien 4 Tekay Hoyce 5 Shirwin Noel 6 Kareem Riley 7 Shakeem Patrick 8 Joshua Burnett 9 Chaz Burnett 10 Morgan Bruce 11...
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    traded from the Lakers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Most Valuable Player Award Magic Johnson, NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, All-NBA...
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    had a verbal altercation in the locker room. It was stated by teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that Johnson had offered input on the game, which resulted...
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    champion Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 2 to win their seventh championship. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the league's MVP, but midway through Game 5, the Lakers...
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  • Nino's girlfriend, Selina Thomas; and her tech-savvy cousin, ex-bank teller Kareem Akbar. Nino converts the Carter apartment complex into a crack house. Gee...
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    This gave the Pat Riley-coached Lakers a team that had four players who were overall #1 selections in the NBA draft, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1969)...
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  • – lead vocals (1) Trinity Christian Center Choir – choir (2, 5, 12) Kareem Riley – choir director (2, 5, 12) Onajé Jefferson – lead vocals (5) Kathryn...
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    Sharman. After the retirement of Chamberlain, the team traded for superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Two big changes came in 1979, first, Jerry Buss purchased...
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    Cooper, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the only members of all 5 Lakers championship teams from the 1980s. Pat Riley is the only coach that was...
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  • Hoffelner Marcel Meinzer Tom Abrahamsson Florida Atlantic Alonso Coello Ivan Mykhailenko Matteo Gasperoni FIU Kareem Riley Alex Adjetey Marshall Gabriel Alves...
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  • record (54–28) in the Western Conference, powered by their one-two punch of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson. During the playoffs, the Lakers defeated...
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  • Lenny Wilkens for the East and Pat Riley for the West. ^DNP Magic Johnson was unable to play due to injury. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was selected as his replacement...
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    championship and his fourth Finals MVP. On February 7, 2023, James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the leading scorer in league history. Off the court...
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  • post open, for which the Lakers hired then-TV commentator Pat Riley to fill in. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a fantastic year (earning his sixth and final...
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    Finals, after which the 2–2–1–1–1 format returned in 2014. With the help of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, the Los Angeles Lakers achieved their first...
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  • Philadelphia 76ers, in which they were swept in four games. The Lakers, powered by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who broke the NBA's all-time total points record) and Magic...
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