This is Kareem Abdul Jabbar. He is an old time basketball player. Kareem played for two teams, the Lakers and the Bucks. He has a special shot called the sky hook. He was a great basketball player. Kareem is a star basketball player. He retired in 1989. He is not dead. He is sixty nine years old. He is in the Hall of Fame now. Kareem was a center. His number was 33 on the Lakers and he was number 33 on the Bucks too.