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Kareem

Legendary center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar takes us inside the world of professional basketball and the climax of one of the greatest careers in sports history in this candid, personal diary written during his final season. Kareem is an intimate and richly detailed book that tells the story of Abdul-Jabbar's last walk through the long NBA season, the 1988-89 campaign with the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers.

Subject
biography
Themes
sports
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 233 pages

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