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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Dominance in the Paint: The Definitive Story of the Intellectual Giant and the Unblockable Skyhook
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Series: The Basketball Legends Series (Collector's Edition)
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On May 27, 1985, in a Boston building that had never once let him win, a thirty-eight-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was so thoroughly overrun that the basketball world agreed, out loud, that he was finished. The final was Boston 148, Los Angeles 114. What no one in the building knew was that he would answer by winning the series, and its Most Valuable Player award, before the month was out.
Dominance in the Paint is the story of the most enduring winner the game has produced, and of the refusal that cost him the crowd's affection while it bought him a career no one has matched. He would not perform. He chose the interior life, the intellect, the faith, the privacy, and the principle, over the easy warmth the crowd wanted, and he was made to pay for it in his own time. The record is the receipt. Six Most Valuable Player awards, still the most ever won. Six championships across two decades. A scoring record that stood for thirty-nine years. And one shot, the skyhook, so unglamorous and so unblockable that he repeated it for twenty seasons until no defense on earth could solve it.
From Lew Alcindor of upper Manhattan to the beloved elder he only became late in life, this is the fullest account yet of the man behind the goggles, and of why the least embraced superstar in the game outlasted every rival who was easier to love.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Dominance in the Paint is an independent and unauthorized work. It is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or any team, league, or organization.
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