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Six-time NBA champion Abdul-Jabbar on the fracture: “I would like to say that I fell trying to save the child, but I just tripped”
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar / Photo: © Ric Tapia / Contributor / Getty Images Sport / Gettyimages.ru
Six-time NBA champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explained the circumstances under which he suffered a hip fracture.
The 76-year-old ex-basketball player was injured on Friday at a concert, after which he was taken to a medical center, where he underwent surgery.
“I’d like to say I fell trying to save a child from falling off the balcony, but I just tripped.” It’s hard for me to come to terms with the fact that a once world-class athlete simply stumbled. But age is the great equalizer and humbles us all,” Abdul-Jabbar quotes TMZ.
The basketball player was twice recognized as the most valuable player of the NBA finals. In 1995 he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.
Source: Sportbox
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