Nice prejudice.dales wrote:Better when he was Lew Alcindor.
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Humor Impaired much? 
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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BoSoxGal wrote:Nice prejudice.dales wrote:Better when he was Lew Alcindor.
Ok, I'll bite, WTF is "prejudiced" about that?
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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It could be seen as anti Islamic.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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Most people who are not racists would say that his achievements as "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar" outshine his achievements as "Lew Alcindor".
yrs,
rubato
And his career after basketball, As Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, are more important to me personally. Sports is just entertainment a diversion.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the National Football League player formerly known as Karim Abdul-Jabbar, see Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar May 2014.jpg
Career history
1969–1975 Milwaukee Bucks
1975–1989 Los Angeles Lakers
Career highlights and awards
6× NBA champion (1971, 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1988)
2× NBA Finals MVP (1971, 1985)
6× NBA Most Valuable Player (1971, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980)
19× NBA All-Star (1970–1977, 1979–1989)
10× All-NBA First Team (1971–1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1986)
5× All-NBA Second Team (1970, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1985)
5× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1974, 1975, 1979–1981)
6× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1970, 1971, 1976–1978, 1984)
NBA Rookie of the Year (1970)
2× NBA scoring champion (1971, 1972)
4× NBA blocks leader (1975, 1976, 1979, 1980)
NBA rebounding champion (1976)
No. 33 retired by Milwaukee Bucks
No. 33 retired by Los Angeles Lakers
NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
3× NCAA champion (1967–1969)
3× NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player (1967–1969)
3× National college player of the year (1967–1969)
3× Consensus first-team All-American (1967–1969)
No. 33 retired by UCLA
As assistant coach:
2× NBA champion (2009, 2010)
Career NBA statistics
Points 38,387 (24.6 ppg)
Rebounds 17,440 (11.2 rpg)
Blocks 3,189 (2.5 bpg)
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
College Basketball Hall of Fame
Inducted in 2006
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.[1][2][3][4][5]
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.[6] 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), and personal fouls (4,657). He remains the all-time leading scorer in the NBA, and is ranked 3rd all-time in both rebounds and blocks. In 2007, ESPN voted him the greatest center of all time,[7] in 2008, they named him the "greatest player in college basketball history",[8] and in 2016, they named him the second best player in NBA history (behind Michael Jordan).[9] Abdul-Jabbar has also been an actor, a basketball coach, and a best-selling author.[10][11] In 2012, he was selected by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to be a U.S. global cultural ambassador.[12] In 2016, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.[13]
yrs,
rubato
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Yeah, he kicked azzz in "Airplane". 
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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He is entitled to choose his own name as you have. When you said that you had chosen the name "dales" over "bosco" I showed you the respect of using your chosen name. You seem to have chronic problem understanding that the courtesy shown to you should be extended to others.dales wrote:Yeah, he kicked azzz in "Airplane".
yrs,
rubato
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Crackpot wrote:It could be seen as anti Islamic.
Only if Dales had specified he was "better" in some way due to that change.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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He said he preferred him before the change so yes it could be considered such by the humor challenged.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
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As it was 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
~ Carl Sagan
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Q:
"why did god make niggers stink?"
A:
"So even blind people would hate them."
the same "humor challenged" have trouble with that one too.
yrs,
rubato
"why did god make niggers stink?"
A:
"So even blind people would hate them."
the same "humor challenged" have trouble with that one too.
yrs,
rubato
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rubato wrote:Q:
"why did god make niggers stink?"
A:
"So even blind people would hate them."
the same "humor challenged" have trouble with that one too.
yrs,
rubato
Projection.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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ROTFLMAO!You seem to have chronic problem understanding that the courtesy shown to you should be extended to others.
yrs,
rubato
And YOU of all people should take your own advice.
If stating an opinion (no matter how misguided you might think it is) is not being discourteous. True, there are some who post here are terminally offended. I can't help that. Can you?
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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rubato wrote: You seem to have chronic problem understanding that the courtesy shown to you should be extended to others.
yrs,
rubato
Bicycle Bill wrote:
I don't often agree whole-heartedly with rubato, but in this case I'll gladly make an exception. ... "
"Fuck you" is an entirely appropriate response to a big "Fuck You" like this.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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I responded to an insult with an insult.
Completely appropriate. And obviously so.
yrs,
rubato
Completely appropriate. And obviously so.
yrs,
rubato
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What "insult"?
There was none, you were just being your usual diskish self.
There was none, you were just being your usual diskish self.
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
yrs,
rubato
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Rube is lying when he says that he believes saying "I don't usually agree with you but this time I do" is an insult...
He really knows better...
The way you can tell he's lying about this, is that he never says it...
If he genuinely thought it was an insult, he'd say it all the time...
He really knows better...
The way you can tell he's lying about this, is that he never says it...
If he genuinely thought it was an insult, he'd say it all the time...
