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One man can be crucial ingredient on the team, but one man cannot take a team
What this means to me is that one player can't take on 12 players

Lew at this point is now in his senior year at Power Memorial Acedemy high school.he had already agreed to go to UCLA and in this picture he is Russian history class and just last year his high school team won against rivals DeMatha high school

This book is about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The
story includes information on him growing up on and off the court and his professional career in the NBA. When he was younger he struggled with racism as he was African American. When he was born his parents named him was Lew Alcindor. Later in life he changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Downloaded the audiobook from the library and was unaware it is marketed as a book for 10-16 year olds. What a fantastic autobiography. It covers his loneliness as a child, the racism he experienced, the civil rights movement, his friendship with Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee, the coaches who mentored him, his constant pursuit of knowledge through reading, and his conversion from Catholicism to Muslim. A time capsule of the 60‘s for teens to read.

@danibolahood It is going to be a great year and I'm excited to try this challenge-totally psyched👏👏👏 #LitsyReadingChallenge 2018

Just finished this biography of Kareem-Powerful! Inspiring! Soul searching! A tell-all growing up in the projects in New York to becoming a Milwaukee Buck! This very intelligent, shy, peaceful man shares his plight of racial discrimination, political views, religious conversion, and close relationships with Coach John Wooden, Muhammed Ali, Bruce Lee and others. A must read if you like biographies and especially if you like basketball-and I do🏀