NBA creates new Kareem Abdul-Jabbar award honoring social justice efforts
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FILE - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar arrives at WE Day California at The Forum on Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Inglewood, Calif. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has revealed that he received the COVID-19 vaccine and is encouraging others to consider doing the same. The Basketball Hall of Famer and NBA’s leading all-time scorer has taped a short message that will be aired beginning Monday during broadcasts of games played on the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
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The NBA announced the creation of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award.
LOS ANGELES (AP) â Two Los Angeles County firefighters could be fired and a third suspended after some first responders took and shared graphic photos from the site of the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant, his teenage daughter and seven others, court documents say.
The court documents were filed Monday as part of widow Vanessa Bryant s federal lawsuit against Los Angeles County that alleges invasion of privacy. The filings propose that a Nov. 16 trial be postponed five months to April 27, 2022, because of a large amount of material that attorneys need to review.
Kobe Bryant and the others were killed Jan. 26, 2020, when the helicopter they were aboard crashed west of Los Angeles. Federal safety officials blamed pilot error for the wreck that killed the basketball star, whom Michael Jordan will present for induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday.
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May 13, 2021 03:06 AM EDT
In a recently published article in CNN News, NBA legend Michael Jordan admitted that he could not bring himself to delete the last text messages of Kobe Bryant to him. This is after he gave Kobe Bryant a bottle of Jordan s Cincoro Tequila.
Jordan emotionally said that Bryant texted, This tequila is awesome, which happened 49 days before the Black Mamba s sudden death due to a helicopter crash on January 26, 2020, along with his daughter and several other individuals.
Jordan shared this as the NBA Legend was chosen by the Bryant family to induct Kobe into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, according to a published article in the ESPN Sports News.
NBA creates annual Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Award
The new annual honor that will recognize a current NBA player for pursuing social justice efforts.
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May 13, 2021 1:29 PM
NEW YORK The NBA today announced the creation of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Social Justice Champion award, a new annual honor that will recognize a current NBA player for pursuing social justice and upholding the league’s decades-long values of equality, respect and inclusion.
The award is named after six-time NBA champion and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The recipient will have advanced Abdul-Jabbar’s mission to drive change and inspired others to reflect on injustice and take collective action in their communities over the previous year.