The Quiet Rebellion of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 1972

[Busy week, so I’m going to make this brief. Here’s an interesting profile of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar that was published in Newsday back on February 12, 1972. Joe Donnelly, the reporter and better known for his baseball jottings over 33 years at Newsday, takes an up-close-and-personal look at Abdul-Jabbar. Back then, the public scrutiny that Alcindor-turned…