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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander joins an elite list of players with his Finals MVP award. The Oklahoma City Thunder guard becomes the fourth player in NBA history to win the NBA MVP, scoring title and Finals MVP in the same season. Below is the list of players SGA joins: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1971) Michael Jordan (1991, 1992, 1996, 1998) Shaquille O'Neal (2000)

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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Only four players have won MVP, the scoring title & an NBA Championship in the same season. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 Michael Jordan (x3) Shaquille O'Neal in 2000 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander this season

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Brian Geltzeiler: The following players have won a league MVP, the scoring title, a championship, and finals MVP in the same season Michael Jordan Kareem Abdul Jabbar Shaquille O’Neal Hakeem Olajuwon Shai Gilgeous Alexander is on the verge of joining this list

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Chris Miller: Jr. Wizards basketball camp at Georgetown Prep. Funny moment, one of the campers asked @DrewGooden if he played with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 😂😂😂😂😂 pic.x.com/wEsrXgjDt3

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Netflix: Shaq reveals his top 10 greatest NBA players of all time 👀 Watch one of the all-time greats make his next play on Power Moves with Shaquille O'Neal premieres June 4.

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Bill Cartwright: When I came to the league, uh, who are the guys that I admired? I'm playing against Wes Unseld. I'm playing against Dan Issel. Here's Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Here's Jack Sikma. My second game I played against Julius Erving. And by the way, I blocked his shot. I couldn't believe I blocked his shot. So when I came to the league, those guys were my heroes. So now I come to Chicago, it's like what… People are like, "What was it like to play against Mike?" And I'm like, “He was a good young player." So to me, my heroes are the guys that I played and saw when I was a kid. Rest of you guys are just young kids. You guys are young kids. I couldn't be enamored by you young kids. Because I saw John Havlicek play, right? Bob Cousy. I met Bill Russell when I was in high school. So I was supposed to be impressed by these young guys? Get out of here. My heroes are behind me. 

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NBA Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar spoke to graduating students at Harvard University on May 28, telling the new graduates to "take a stand,: Abdul-Jabbar's speech came as Harvard continues to battle President Donald Trump's administration's efforts to revoke international student enrollment at the school. "During the many records I set and a whole lot of championship rings, my achievements as a basketball player were unrelated to my main goal: To be as successful as I could as a member of the Black community, as an American, and as a human being," Abdul-Jabbar said.

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"When a tyrannical administration tried to bully and threaten Harvard to give up their academic freedom and destroy free speech, Dr. Alan Garber rejected the illegal and immoral pressures the way Rosa Parks defied the entire weight of systemic racism in 1955," Abdul-Jabbar said to the applause of the Harvard crowd.

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Josh Lewenberg: Players to win MVP and an NBA championship in the same season: Steph, LeBron (x2), Duncan, Shaq, Jordan (x4), Hakeem, Magic, Bird (x2), Moses Malone, Kareem (x2), Willis Reed, Wilt, Bill Russell (x4), Bob Cousy Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is 4 wins away from joining that group.

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Larry Miller, a two-time ACC player of the year for North Carolina and 2022 inductee in the College Basketball Hall of Fame, has died. He was 79. The UNC athletic department said Miller died Sunday in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. No cause of death was given. An athletic department spokesman said Miller was in hospice care and dealing with medical issues for some time. Miller, a native of Catasauqua, Pennsylvania, was a star forward on coach Dean Smith's first two Atlantic Coast Conference championship and Final Four teams in 1967 and 1968. He earned first-team All-America honors both seasons and was a consensus pick in 1968 along with UCLA's Lew Alcindor, Houston's Elvin Hayes, LSU's Pete Maravich and Louisville's Wes Unseld.

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To no one in the room’s surprise, Falk quickly answered Jordan when asked who his G.O.A.T is. Asked for No. 2, he said either Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or Kobe Bryant. Is LeBron James in his top 10? “Probably,” Falk said, before delivering the quote of the day: “I really like LeBron,” he said. “But I think if Jordan had cherry-picked what teams he wanted to be on and two other superstars, he would’ve won 15 championships.”

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: He will always be the all-time points-scoring leader prior to the three-point explosion. His skyhook is the most unstoppable shot in NBA history (unless you were Wilt Chamberlain, who once blocked it twice on one possession).  $100: My choice here is the 1973 Topps in NM-7 condition with some money to spare. I especially love that Wilt is also in the action photo on this card, depicting what may have been the greatest heavyweight rivalry in sports history.

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Duane Rankin: "They can't guard anybody. They're going to have to find somebody to cover for LeBron and Luka. LeBron don't play defense anymore. Luka can't guard a chair. You're going to have to have Wilt, Kareem and Bill Russell back there blocking shots." Charles Barkley on Lakers needs. pic.x.com/CQjs9QaWeG

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Celtics Stats: Tonight, Al Horford became the second player in NBA history to record five blocks in a playoff game at age 38+. The other is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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