Borenstein and Jim Hecht for HBO, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman. The...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (/kəˈriːm æbˈduːl dʒəˈbɑːr/ kə-REEM ab-DOOL jə-BAR; born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. (/ælˈsɪndər/ al-SIN-dər); April 16, 1947) is...

changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Riley, who would go on to coach Abdul-Jabbar with the Los Angeles Lakers. In 1991, Riley called it "one of...

run-and-gun style of basketball. Led by Magic Johnson's passing skills and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's scoring, the team relied on fast breaks and won five NBA...

Retrieved 2024-06-13. Jeff Pearlman (4 March 2014). Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Penguin. ISBN 978-0698148611...

Bears running back. In March 2014, Pearlman released Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, a biography of the...

HBO pilot based on Jeff Pearlman's non-fiction book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. McKay directed the...

2012. Retrieved June 11, 2022. Perlman, Jeff (2014). Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Gotham Books. pp. 396–7...

by Max Borenstein and Jim Hecht, based on the book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s by Jeff Pearlman. Other...

for the Pistons throughout the next season as well. Following the series, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar announced his retirement at 42, after 20 years with the NBA...

Retrieved January 3, 2022. Perlman, Jeff (2014). Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s. Gotham Books. p. 397...

Lakers went on a 40–9 run over the game's next 11 minutes. Wilkes scored 10, Kareem and McAdoo scored 8 each, Nixon and Cooper scored 7 each, and Nixon had...

through the season. Both moves helped alleviate the load off of the aging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who turned 40 during the playoffs. A.C. Green supplanted Kurt...

Johnson, James Worthy and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were all selected to play in the 1988 NBA All-Star Game held in Chicago. Pat Riley was chosen to coach the...

champion Philadelphia 76ers 4 games to 2 to win their seventh championship. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the league's MVP, but midway through Game 5, the Lakers...

Cooper, Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are the only members of all 5 Lakers championship teams from the 1980s. Pat Riley is the only coach that was...

record (54–28) in the Western Conference, powered by their one-two punch of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson. During the playoffs, the Lakers defeated...

had a verbal altercation in the locker room. It was stated by teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that Johnson had offered input on the game, which resulted...

Fernandez 2 Isaiah Garcia 3 Keston Julien 4 Tekay Hoyce 5 Shirwin Noel 6 Kareem Riley 7 Shakeem Patrick 8 Joshua Burnett 9 Chaz Burnett 10 Morgan Bruce 11...

traded from the Lakers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Most Valuable Player Award Magic Johnson, NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, All-NBA...

Finals, after which the 2–2–1–1–1 format returned in 2014. With the help of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson, the Los Angeles Lakers achieved their first...

post open, for which the Lakers hired then-TV commentator Pat Riley to fill in. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a fantastic year (earning his sixth and final...

record for most games officiated with 2,635 by the time he retired in 2014. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was named the league's Most Valuable Player despite his team...

Philadelphia 76ers, in which they were swept in four games. The Lakers, powered by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who broke the NBA's all-time total points record) and Magic...

Sharman. After the retirement of Chamberlain, the team traded for superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Two big changes came in 1979, first, Jerry Buss purchased...

Nino's girlfriend, Selina Thomas; and her tech-savvy cousin, ex-bank teller Kareem Akbar. Nino converts the Carter apartment complex into a crack house. Gee...

Hoffelner Marcel Meinzer Tom Abrahamsson Florida Atlantic Alonso Coello Ivan Mykhailenko Matteo Gasperoni FIU Kareem Riley Alex Adjetey Marshall Gabriel Alves...

team currently playing in the National Basketball Association. NBA MVP Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – 1976, 1977, 1980 Magic Johnson – 1987, 1989, 1990 Shaquille...

his last full season, as well as fellow All-Star teammate James Worthy; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had retired two seasons earlier. The Bulls, led by Jordan and...

This gave the Pat Riley-coached Lakers a team that had four players who were overall #1 selections in the NBA draft, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1969)...