LOS ANGELES — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is recovering from surgical procedure for a damaged hip after he fell at a live performance in Los Angeles.
The basketball Hall of Famer had surgical procedure Sunday “with no complications,” his enterprise companion and spokeswoman, Deborah Morales, informed The Associated Press on Monday.
“He will be in recovery for the next three months,” she wrote through textual content.
Abdul-Jabbar was attending the Manhattan Transfer’s live performance at Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Friday evening when he was injured. Paramedics on the venue responded and took 76-year-old by ambulance to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
“I’d like to say I fell while trying to save a child from plunging over the balcony, but I just tripped,” he posted Monday on his Substack account. “Hard for me to accept that a once world-class athlete just stumbled. But age is the great equalizer and humbles us all.”
Abdul-Jabbar wrote that he had hip alternative surgical procedure “like 450,000 other Americans every year.”
He had been scheduled to learn a letter from Vice President Kamala Harris to the venerable vocal group earlier than his fall. The Manhattan Transfer was celebrating its fiftieth anniversary earlier than performing for the final time.
Abdul-Jabbar is a longtime fan of the group that blends R&B, jazz, blues and pop, and is best-known for its 1981 hit “The Boy From New York City.”
“I’m sorry I was not able to join you onstage to read the letter and tell the audience how much your music has meant to me,” he wrote. “On the plus side, my fall hit all the newspapers so I made your final show even more memorable. Come for the music, stay for the klutzy fall.”
Abdul-Jabbar was a key participant on the Los Angeles Lakers’ groups throughout their “Showtime” period within the Eighties, main them to 5 NBA championships.
“I’m wishing my Showtime teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a speedy recovery after falling and breaking his hip! Praying for the Captain!” Magic Johnson posted on social media over the weekend.
The 7-foot-2 middle was the NBA’s profession scoring chief till being handed by present Laker LeBron James in February. Abdul-Jabbar owned the mark for 39 years.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 17 rebounds in a win Sunday evening to overhaul Abdul-Jabbar because the Milwaukee Bucks’ profession rebounding chief. Abdul-Jabbar received the primary of his six NBA MVP awards throughout his years there earlier than being traded to the Lakers in 1975.
He starred at UCLA, the place he was often known as Lew Alcindor and was a three-time nationwide participant of the 12 months below coach John Wooden.
Abdul-Jabbar disclosed in 2020 that he had prostate most cancers. In 2009, he mentioned he had been recognized the earlier 12 months with power myeloid leukemia, a blood most cancers.
