Abdul-Jabbar spreads wide wings as Renaissance Man — reuters.com

(Reuters) - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar proved to be an ultimate winner during his Hall of Fame career but for the NBA's all-time leading scorer, missing out on a chance to be a head coach may have been a blessing. The shy, cerebral 7-foot-2 (2.18 m) Abdul-Jabbar, a prolific winner from New York's Power Memorial High School to UCLA, from the Milwaukee Bucks to the Los Angeles Lakers, is now thriving as the kind of Renaissance Man he always thought he could be.

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