Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Big Men should stay in the paint"

[CavaliersFTW]

http://youtu.be/9HyTIak-_y8



He also calls out Lebron for not knowing his history when he made his Mt Rushmore.

[Black Mamba's B]

Kareem is vastly underrated

[Smook A.]

Doesn't matter as long as if they make their shots

[rmt]

Kareem giving Timmy props - best center in the NBA. KAJ is right when he says the hand check rule has changed the game a lot - made it so much easier to score. And yes, Lebron should know his NBA history better - gotta give respect to those who came before you and paved the way.

[miggyme1]

in order for big men to stay in the paint they have to be able to play with their back to the basket.

[Joyner82reload]

The real Mount Rushmore is Russell, Jordan, Kareem, and Magic/Bird(combined into 1)

[plowking]

CavsFTW staying salty. Dude still mad at anything Bron does.

I've never seen someone this butthurt. Tries to cover it up acting like he doesn't care too. lol...

One of the worst cases of butthurt I've seen on here.

[MMM]

The real Mount Rushmore is Russell, Jordan, Kareem, and Magic/Bird(combined into 1)

[houston]

kareem is a hater

[JohnFreeman]

The older retired players are so salty and bitter. It was just LeBrons opinion. I agree with the big men thing though.

[Cold soul]

Wise words by Kareem.

[JohnFreeman]

He hardly called out LeBron..lets be honest

[eriX]

I agree, all these talents are wasted with bigs wanting to shoot these days. But did you really have to take another out of context shot at lebron?

[dunksby]

Agreed, dominate the post and the paint and you are on your way to victory. If your big men constantly spend time on the perimeter and away from the basket you are giving up a huge advantage.

[SHAQisGOAT]

Always love to hear Kareem, he's very knowledgeable although he can be too self-centered many times and come off like an asshole. That said, imo you can't leave Jabbar off the top 3, just can't.

"You had to know how to move the ball around. Nowadays, they just give the ball to 2 guys. A lot of people come to me and say that the game is boring."
on point

As for the big-men should stay in the paint part, that's right for the most part, let's also not act like having a solid mid-range jumper doesn't do wonders plenty of times, Kareem should know that because he improved on that as his career progressed and was good for him.. He played against Bob Lanier, one of the biggest, toughest dudes and still had a really good shooting touch, sweet jumper, prime Bob McAdoo is one of the greatest shooters ever (forget about just for big-men), Jack Sikma could really shoot the rock and played outside the paint most of the time, Cowens was shooting a bunch of jumpers from distance, Walton had a nice mid-range game, also Ewing, even Parish, so on... Notion that bigs couldn't and wouldn't shoot from outside, back in the day, is really stupid and false as hell, yea on average most of them would be in the paint, but plenty could knock jumpers and you had more than enough relying on the outside game.. With all of this, the 3pt chucking thing is different. With that said, it's right to say that centers should be in the paint most of the time.

And people need to stop hating on that Lebron's list, it's hard to be precise about those things and his list was actually pretty good and more than acceptable although different from mine, I ain't hating.