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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers. During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member. A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two more as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP. In 1996, he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.

In 1975, he was traded to the Lakers, with whom he played the final 14 seasons of his career and won five additional NBA championships. Abdul-Jabbar's contributions were a key component in the "Showtime" era of Lakers basketball. Over his 20-year NBA career, his teams succeeded in making the playoffs 18 times and got past the first round 14 times; his teams reached the NBA Finals on 10 occasions.

At the time of his retirement at age 42 in 1989, Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA's all-time leader in points scored (38,387), games played (1,560), minutes played (57,446), field goals made (15,837), field goal attempts (28,307), blocked shots (3,189), defensive rebounds (9,394), career wins (1,074), and personal fouls (4,657). In 2007, ESPN voted him the greatest center of all time, in 2008, they named him the "greatest player in college basketball history", and in 2016, they named him the second best player in NBA history (behind Michael Jordan). Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author.

(1999) TV commercial: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0413944/?ref_=nmwrk">Phil Jackson</a> for TD Waterhouse Group financial services

(2004) Book (w/Anthony Walton): &quot;Brothers in Arms: The Epic Story of the 761st Tank Battalion, WWII&#39;s Forgotten Heroes&quot;. New York: Broadway Books, ISBN 0385503385

(1989) Print ads: Kenwood automobile stereo systems

(199?) Print ads: the Team NFL line of apparel

(1982) TV commercial: TWA Airlines Business Class

(199?) TV commercial (w/<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0083399/?ref_=nmwrk">Larry Bird</a>): Lay&#39;s Potato Chips

(early 1980s) TV commercial (PSA, w/<a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1528486/?ref_=nmwrk">Willie Shoemaker</a>): National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(1976) TV commercial: Atari video game system

(early 1980s) TV commercials (PSA): American Lung Association

(1996) Book: &quot;Black Profiles in Courage: A Legacy of African American Achievements&quot;.

(2012) Book: &quot;What Color is My World?: How African-American Inventors Changed the Way We Live&quot;.

(11/23/83) Appeared in the TV special &quot;Bob Hope Goes to College&quot;.

(2015) Authored essay &quot;We We Love Sherlock Holmes&quot; in September 27th issue of Parade magazine.

(1983) TV commercial: Nestle&#39;s Crunch candy bar

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