Kareem Abdul Jabbar comes down hard on NBA owners; Compares them with Michael Olowokandi: NBA Update
The former National Basketball Association (NBA) and Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has come down hard against the NBA owners who are not trying to get their financial act in order.
In a column, Jabbar chastised the league owners because of their poor efforts to resolve this revenue sharing issue with the players association. The labour dispute, more commonly known as the dispute on the new Collective Bargaining
Agreement or CBA, has put the league at a standstill, with basketball fan both in USA and from across the world yearning for some headway into the issue.
He interlinked the situation with the former Los Angeles Clippers player Michael Olowokandi, who never showed interest to improve his game when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used to coach the Los Angeles Clippers.
“I have seen this process firsthand. When I coached for the Clippers, I had to deal with Michael Olowokandi, a player who perfectly fit the description “talented but uncoachable. At practice, I would attempt to point out Mr. Olowokandi’s
faults to him, ones he constantly repeated and resulted in lost possessions for the team or personal fouls that sent him to the bench. He stuck to his word and, as a result, had very few successful moments on the court playing the way he wanted to play. He
took his place on the list of athletically gifted washouts who have been in and out of the league in the past 10 years.”
For many, his column was very difficult to understand, but those who understood his main crux of writing had caught what he was really trying to say between the lines.
He talked about this stubborn player who never wanted to learn and kept on committing the same mistakes again and again. The league owners are just doing the same thing which Olowokandi used to do in his professional career.
They are also just as stubborn on their decision and are sticking to their guns over the money issue, notwithstanding the fact that not only the action, but the league’s popularity is taking a hit. The league has locked its players
over the labour unrest with the players Association. The main objection is coming from the Players Association as they are not accepting the new clauses in the CBA. This new clauses include less revenue sharing with the players and hard salary caps.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the most gifted specimens NBA in particular and the game of basketball has ever graced. He spent almost 20 seasons in NBA and throughout his career he remained consistent in his performance and his
straightforwardness. And it is a sample of this bluntness, which the Lakers superstar has shown under the cover of Olowokandi.
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