Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2019. The Basketball Hall of Famer was hospitalized on Friday after falling and breaking his hip at a live performance.

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 2019. The Basketball Hall of Famer was hospitalized on Friday after falling and breaking his hip at a live performance.

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Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was hospitalized Friday night time after falling and breaking his hip in Los Angeles.

The Basketball Hall of Famer, who is likely one of the NBA’s highest all-time scorers, was attending a live performance on the time, in keeping with his longtime enterprise companion, Deborah Morales.

“Kareem had an accidental fall and broke his hip,” Morales stated in an announcement posted Saturday on Abdul-Jabbar’s X feed, previously Twitter. “He will have surgery today. We are all deeply appreciative of all the support for Kareem, especially from the Los Angeles Fire Department who assisted Kareem on site and the amazing medical team and doctors at UCLA Hospital who are taking great care of Kareem now.”

The longtime Los Angeles Lakers middle, 76, launched his skilled basketball profession with the Milwaukee Bucks in 1969. He went on to steer the Lakers to 5 NBA championships within the Nineteen Eighties. He held the NBA’s document for highest all-time scorer for 39 years till LeBron James snatched the title away from Abdul-Jabbar earlier this 12 months.

Abdul-Jabbar can also be a social activist who has written greater than a dozen books. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Barack Obama in 2016.

Fans took to social media to precise their concern for the athlete, who has additionally confronted most cancers, and to want him a speedy restoration.