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Mark Bradley: Why Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remains a towering figure
2 monthes ago | By Boston Herald
Mark Bradley
ATLANTA - In his penultimate NBA game against the nasty Pistons in the 1989 finals, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scored 24 points. He was 42.
Today the matter of basketball's best-ever player splits the audience into Team Jordan or Team LeBron, the latter being only a few games from surpassing Abdul-Jabbar as the career scoring leader. For someone who first watched him when he was Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr., repeated mention of the Big Fella has stirred all manner of memories. It also has made me wonder if anyone was - or is, or will ever be - his superior.
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