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Old 12-08-2021, 02:34 PM
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Originally Posted by ASF123 View Post
To state the obvious, Lew Alcindor --> Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think a few other NBA players have adopted Islamic names, right? There was a guy in the early '90s if I recall.
Chris Jackson/Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf. Another Basketball is Keith Wilkes/Jamaal Wilkes. A couple of Football, Bobby Moore/Ahmad Rashad, Sharmon Shah/Karim Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar later sued him and he changed it to Abdul-Karim al-Jabbar.
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Last edited by Cliff Bowman; 12-08-2021 at 02:37 PM. Reason: Correction on Bobby Moore
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