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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Personal blog · kareem.substack.comculturepolitics
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar writes Kareem Takes on the News, a personal blog at kareem.substack.com about culture and politics. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Substack essays, including his piece on LeBron James breaking his NBA scoring record and a piece on Bruce Lee. Commenters cite them as examples of his character.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares thoughts about sports, politics, and popular culture and how they define America.
Most-linked posts?
- What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-09
What Hacker News says?
https://kareem.substack.com/p/why-lebron-is-wrong-about-hono...
Comment linking /p/why-lebron-is-wrong-about-honoring
on “What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record”Submitted What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record as a story · 4 points
HN discussionKareem is always modest, a lovely human. His article of LeBron taking over his scoring record is a great showcase of this: https://kareem.substack.com/p/what-i-think-about-lebron-brea...
Comment linking /p/what-i-think-about-lebron-breaking
on “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Lee and Me”Submitted I Write the Best Newsletter in the World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Bruce Lee and Me as a story · 2 points
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