Query: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is not a basketball player.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar <=SEP=> Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. ; April 16 , 1947 ) 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 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 . NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time .   After winning 71 consecutive basketball games on his high school team in New York City , Alcindor attended college at UCLA , where he played for coach John Wooden on three consecutive national championship basketball teams and was a record three-time MVP of the NCAA Tournament . Drafted by the one-season-old Bucks franchise in the 1969 NBA draft with the first overall pick , Alcindor spent six seasons in Milwaukee . After winning his first NBA championship in 1971 , he adopted the Muslim name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at age 24 . Using his trademark `` skyhook '' shot , he established himself as one of the league 's top scorers . In 1975 , he was traded to the Lakers , with whom he played the last 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 team succeeded in making the playoffs 18 times and past the 1st round in 14 of them ; his team reached the NBA Finals 10 times .   At the time of his retirement 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 ) . He remains the all-time leading scorer in the NBA , and player with most career wins . He is ranked 3rd all-time in both rebounds and blocks . 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 . In 2012 , he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador . In 2016 , he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama .

Hook shot <=SEP=> In basketball , a hook shot is a play in which the offensive player , usually turned perpendicular to the basket , gently throws the ball with a sweeping motion of his arm in an upward arc with a follow-through which ends over his head . Unlike the jump shot , it is shot with only one hand ; the other arm is often used to create space between the shooter and the defensive player . The shot is quite difficult to block , but few players have mastered the shot more than a few feet from the basket .   The hook shot was reportedly performed for the first time in official games in Eurobasket 1937 by Pranas Talzūnas , a member of the eventual champions , the Lithuania basketball team . Former Harlem Globetrotter Goose Tatum is often credited with inventing the hook shot ; he would even shoot them without looking at the basket . The hook shot later became a staple of many players in the National Basketball Association , including notable stars such as George Mikan , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , Magic Johnson , and Yao Ming .   In FIBA games , hook shots were a favored skill for centers before dunks became more popular , mostly because of the relative difficulty of blocking such shots .

Center (basketball) <=SEP=> The center ( C ) , also known as the five or the big man , is one of the five positions in a regular basketball game . The center is normally the tallest player on the team , and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well .   The tallest player to ever be drafted in the NBA was the 7 ' 8 '' ( 2.33 m ) Yasutaka Okayama from Japan . The tallest players to ever play in the NBA , at 7 ' 7 '' ( 2.31 m ) , are centers Gheorghe Mureșan and Manute Bol . Standing at 7 ' 2 '' ( 2.18 m ) , Margo Dydek is the tallest player to have ever played in the WNBA .