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was the oddest imaginable place to find him, but find him I did.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man who had put a ball through a hoop more
often than anyone in the history of the NBA, was holed up in the
White Mountains of eastern Arizona, spending a season as a volunteer
assistant coach at a high school on the Apache reservation.The Kareem I found was no longer the reclusive soul I remembered from the late stages of his career with the Lakers, when he would shield himself from sportswriters and teammates alike. Over the course of several days I sensed from him both regret over some aspects of his past, and a curator’s concern for the future of the game he loved. Here Kareem offers his Alchesay Falcons some words from on high.  THIRTEEN:
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