{"id":18221,"date":"2012-11-22T14:26:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18221"},"modified":"2012-11-20T15:14:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T20:14:58","slug":"kareem-abdul-jabbars-skyhook-captured-in-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18221","title":{"rendered":"Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s Skyhook Captured In Bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; <strong>Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s<\/strong> skyhook has been captured in bronze for future generations of basketball fans.<\/p>\n<p>Staples Center unveiled a nearly 16-foot-tall statue of the top scorer in NBA history Friday night, immortalizing <strong>Jabbar\u2019s<\/strong> famed hook shot alongside statues of fellow Los Angeles Lakers greats <strong>Magic Johnson<\/strong> and <strong>Jerry West<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The 65-year-old Abdul-Jabbar pronounced himself humbled and grateful during a ceremony attended by numerous NBA greats ranging from <strong>Johnson<\/strong> and West to <strong>Pat Riley<\/strong> and <strong>Elgin Baylor<\/strong> &#8211; and even Lakers superfan <strong>Jack Nicholson<\/strong>. \u201cHaving lived my life and had the experiences I\u2019ve had, I can understand now what a man like <strong>Lou Gehrig<\/strong> means when he considers himself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,\u2019\u2018 <strong>Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abdul-Jabbar<\/strong> is depicted in his signature goggles, wristbands and the standard 1980s short-shorts below his No. 33 jersey. The 7-foot-2 center pulled a braided cord to drop a curtain revealing the statue to hundreds of cheering fans, who gathered under threatening clouds for the ceremony. \u201cI\u2019m glad we got here before the pigeons got to it,\u2019\u2018 <strong>Abdul-Jabbar <\/strong>said with a smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Kareem Abdul-Jabbar\u2019s skyhook has been captured in bronze for future generations of basketball fans. Staples Center unveiled a nearly 16-foot-tall statue of the top scorer in NBA history Friday night, immortalizing Jabbar\u2019s famed hook shot alongside statues of fellow Los Angeles Lakers greats Magic Johnson and Jerry West. The 65-year-old Abdul-Jabbar pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}