NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been hospitalized after breaking his hip.
As reported by TMZthe 2 meter 76 year old fell during a concert in Los Angeles, crushing him.
Paramedics rushed Abdul-Jabbar to the emergency room, and while his condition has not been released, his rep, Deborah Morales, told TMZ that the Hall of Famer is being cared for by the “amazing medical team and doctors at UCLA Hospital .'
Neither the location of the concert nor the artist has been identified.
This medical emergency comes three years after Abdul-Jabbar revealed he had beaten prostate cancer.
NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been hospitalized after breaking his hip
The NBA's second all-time leading scorer behind LeBron James, Abdul-Jabbar has been synonymous with basketball since his high school days in New York City.
The nation's top recruit, Lew Alcindor, as he was then known, chose to join UCLA, where he won a national title in each of his three seasons.
He would win one NBA crown with the Milwaukee Bucks alongside Oscar Robertson before winning four more with Magic Johnson and the Los Angeles Lakers.
In addition to his many roles, Abdul-Jabbar now serves as a health ambassador for his alma-mater, UCLA, because he wanted to reach out to African American communities to ensure they receive proper medical attention.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was known for his skyhook in the NBA after his NCAA career at UCLA
For Abdul-Jabbar, a longtime civil rights activist, this topic is nothing new. Healthcare inequality is inextricably linked to other age-old forms of racism in the US.
And the more he encounters, Abdul-Jabbar wrote in 2020, the more it feels like an endless cycle.
“It's like the black community is trapped in Groundhog Day, where every day we fight racism, prove it exists, see gains, and wake up the next day with all the same obstacles,” he concluded. “In the movie, Bill Murray escaped the cycle by becoming selfless and caring more about the needs of others than his greedy desires. This is how America will be able to escape this self-destructive behavior.
“The future of equality for Black Americans starts with physical and mental health, and as long as they are at the end of the line in terms of service delivery, true equality cannot happen.” Black lives must matter in every aspect of American society if they are to thrive.”