Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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🗓️ 26 January 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this 2017 interview, basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar talks about his 50 year friendship with the "Wizard of Westwood" UCLA Coach John Wooden. He says Coach Wooden was more concerned with his players’ grades than with winning basketball games, he shares some of the wisdom that Coach Wooden imparted, and talks about the time Coach helped Abdul-Jabbar forgive another one of his early mentors who used a racial slur. He talks about how he felt when the NCAA banned dunking and how Coach Wooden hel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.5	When future NBA legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an 18-year-old high school basketball
1:23.5	prospect from New York City named Lou Alcindor.
1:27.0	He accepted a scholarship from UCLA largely on the strength of coach John Wooden's reputation
1:32.7	as a winner.
1:34.0	It turned out to be the right choice as Alcindor and his teammates won an unprecedented
1:38.6	three NCAA championship titles.
1:42.0	But it also marked the beginning of one of the most extraordinary and enduring friendships
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