Young Kareem versus Old Wilt:
Posted on 11/10/2009 9:45:19 AM PST by Justaham
NEW YORK (AP) -- Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar being treated for a rare form of leukemia, and he said his prognosis is encouraging.
The NBA's all-time leading scorer was diagnosed last December with chronic myeloid leukemia, he told The Associated Press on Monday.
The 62-year-old Abdul-Jabbar said his doctor didn't give any guarantees, but informed him: "You have a very good chance to live your life out and not have to make any drastic changes to your lifestyle."
Abdul-Jabbar is taking an oral medication for the disease. He is a paid spokesman for the Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, which makes a drug that treats the illness.
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I hope “Clarence” gets his “Clearance.”
The Gleevec will help him for a while. He will either have to have chemo or go to some new drug. My Dad had CML and the drug will stop working. Prayer for Kareem. I would not wish this on anyone.
Unfortunately, you fall outside the "Complete-Lives" curve and so you'll have to take this pain pill until you die.
Unless, of course, you are able to offer some remuneration in the right places...
What’s the vector, Victor?
I can’t help reading a headline like this and thinking, “Why couldn’t it have been OJ?”, or Micheal Vick, or fill in the blank.
Young Kareem versus Old Wilt:
Roger, Roger...
Well, that sucks.
Get well, Captain.
"You try dragging Walton and Lanier up and down the floor for 48 minutes". :o)
Get well, Kareem.
Wilt was the only player in basketball who could block Kareem’s sky hook.
Either player would make Shaq look like an amateur.
Either player would make Shaq look like an amateur.
I agree. To me, the decline in basketball is illustrated by the fact that many of the stars of the 80's like Barkley, Stockton and Karl Malone remained productive almost to the verge of middle age against the younger players of the late 90s.
The Cap is one of the greatest players to ever play the game. I am praying for his full recovery.
Surely you can’t be serious.
Here’s one way to look at it: Imagine if Wilt, Kareem, and Shaq each were 6’-8” tall. What would their careers have been like?
Wilt would have been a dominant, athletic, defensive forward.
Kareem would have been a dominant, agile, high-scoring forward.
Shaq would be changing tires at Sam’s Club.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen that over the years. Our family developed a tradition of watching it on Christmas Eve. Don’t know how it started, but it did. Saw it the first time in the Embassy theater in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sometime in around 1981.
I was in the airport once, and the bag handler guy said that quote to the guy next to him. Without thinking, I blurted out, “I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” He couldn’t believe I knew the line. My girlfriend asked what the hell that was about and I just laughed.
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