AKA Lew Alcindor
Nickname: The Captian
#: 33 (retired)
Drafted by:Milwaukee Bucks (69)
Traded to the Lakers in 1975 Height: 7-2
Weight: 267 lbs.
G FG% 3PFG% FT% Rebs RPG Asts APG Stls Blks Pts PPG
1,560 .559 .056 .721 17,440 11.2 5,660 3.6 1,160 3,189 38,387 24.6
Accomplishments
- NBA Rookie of the Year (1970)
- All-NBA First Team 10 times (71-74, 76-77,
80-81, 84, 86)
- All-NBA Second Team (70, 78, 79, 83, 85)
- All-Defensive First Team (74, 75, 79, 80, 81)
- All-Defensive Second Team (70, 71, 76-78, 84)
19-time All-Star
- NBA champion (71, 80, 82, 85, 87, 88)
- NBA MVP (71, 72, 74, 76, 77, 80)
- One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (96)
- Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995
- Holds both Laker and NBA records in many catagories
Current Project
LA Lakers Special Assistant Coach
Doing What?
Kareem is working with all the Laker centers trying to help them become dominate big men in the league.
Writing?
Kareem has written many books the most recent being
"On the Shoulders of Giants"
Hollywood?
He has also done some acting including a Bruce Lee film in which he fought Bruce Lee