THe great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is on Rachel

[malaise]

I agree with him 100% - Sterling should have been dealt with ages ago.

[demtenjeep]

1. totally agree

in 2014 and a NBA owner. Jeesh

[malaise]

3. Ten years too late says Kareem

I've always loved him - a genuine progressive - nice man.

[Blue Owl]

2. Yup, Sterling shoulda got the hook

The sky hook, that is...

[malaise]

5. A Muhammad Ali hook to the face

would be fine with me (Today in 1967 Ali took the stand that changed attitudes to the Vietnam War).

[Blue Owl]

15. Works for me!

I had the privilege of shaking Muhammad Ali's hand in an airport back in '82 or so.

And was also a Milwaukee Bucks fan back in the Kareem Abdul days!

[Gothmog]

4. That was a great interview

[malaise]

6. Indeed

Saw Spike Lee on Anderson Cooper - that too was fabulous.

[Ptah]

7. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Welcome to the Finger-Wagging Olympics

Moral outrage is exhausting. And dangerous. The whole country has gotten a severe
case of carpal tunnel syndrome from the newest popular sport of Extreme Finger Wagging.
Not to mention the neck strain from Olympic tryouts for Morally Superior Head Shaking.
All over the latest in a long line of rich white celebrities to come out of the racist closet.
(Was it only a couple days ago that Cliven Bundy said blacks would be better off picking
cotton as slaves? And only last June Paula Deen admitted using the “N” word?)


Yes, I’m angry, too, but not just about the sins of Donald Sterling. I’ve got a list. But let’s
start with Sterling. I used to work for him, back in 2000 when I coached for the Clippers for
three months. He was congenial, even inviting me to his daughter’s wedding. Nothing happened
or was said to indicate he suffered from IPMS (Irritable Plantation Master Syndrome). Since then,
a lot has been revealed about Sterling’s business practices:

<snip>

And now the poor guy’s girlfriend (undoubtedly ex-girlfriend now) is on tape cajoling him into
revealing his racism. Man, what a winding road she led him down to get all of that out. She was
like a sexy nanny playing “pin the fried chicken on the Sambo.” She blindfolded him and spun him
around until he was just blathering all sorts of incoherent racist sound bites that had the
news media peeing themselves with glee.

They caught big game on a slow news day, so they put his head on a pike,
dubbed him Lord of the Flies, and danced around him whooping.

http://time.com/79590/donald-sterling-kareem-abdul-jabbar-racism/

[malaise]

8. Thanks for posting this

I read it earlier - freaking brilliant.

[dionysus]

12. sorry robert parish.. but kareem is teh awesome....

man he has a way with words!

[Shankapotomus]

9. One of the few

refreshing voices out of sports I can admire and respect.

[malaise]

10. There are many great former athletes

and while Kareem has long been one of my favorites, MSGreedia has really failed to seek them out for their views.

[lordsummerisle]

11. K&R n/t

[demtenjeep]

13. I think it would be poetic justice if Magic bought the team

after this!

[undeterred]

14. Irritable Plantation Master Syndrome

[malaise]

19. Loved it as well

[demosincebirth]

16. And yet Pete Rose is still banned from all baseball activities.

[trackfan]

17. When I was a kid, he called my house one time.

It was a holiday, and a friend of my sister, who he was interested in, gave him our number, as she was going to be there part of that day. He was still going by Lew then. If I remember correctly, the friend wasn't there, so whoever answered the phone - I think it was my dad - took the message to tell G. that Lew called. My sister and her friend arrived later, and it was only then, when the message was delivered, that we found out it was Lew Alcindor that had called!

[malaise]

20. How cool is that?

[yodermon]

18. saw his cameo in the Delta safety video on an international flight last week

about peed myself

[malaise]

21. Ha