[Magdalen] Kareem Abdul-Jabbar?

Grace Cangialosi gracecan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 22:41:18 UTC 2016


I had just read one of his columns, which prompted my question. I didn't realize he was a columnist.

> On Apr 16, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> IIRC, Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.
> 
> Kareem is a very intelligent man. Read his columns sometime. Very well
> thought out. I don't always agree with him, but the guy has brains and
> expresses himself well.
> 
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Oh, OK. Maybe the name change I'm thinking about was when he went from
>> being a Harlem Globetrotter to being whatever he was as a pro
>> player--Philadelphia something?
>> 
>>>> On Apr 16, 2016, at 4:36 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> In a message dated 4/16/2016 4:32:58 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> gracecan at gmail.com writes:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> So  what name did Wilt Chamberlain take?>>>>>>
>>> 
>>> I don't recall that he converted to, say, Islam.  His nick-name was
>> "Wilt
>>> the Stilt."
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>> 


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