Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Becoming Kareem, the Skyhook, and the Search for a Self [From the Archive]

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and showed us exactly how they rebuilt everything from the ground up. So very excited to have Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Kareem, welcome to the the podcast. Thank you very much. Nice to be here. You know, I I always have to start off an intro with the obvious, unfortunately, which is you're definitely one of the greatest basketball players of all time. You have the record of most points scored in your career. You played twenty seasons, you were you know, your team was the champion for so many years. Uh, I don't know how many records you have

broken in basketball that still haven't been And you haven't played professionally since nineteen eighty nine and and your records still last. Like you would think by now somebody would have scored more than thirty eight thousand points in their career, but it has not happened. Do you think basketball's changed? Well, basketball has changed a little bit, you know, the three point shot and the way they change the rules with regard to defense now.

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