I agree with homie above but Kareem IS the greatest BBall player ever to live.......sad part is that its gets worse about him complaining....see below.....(LOL at the shot @ Phil Jackson salary)
Hall of Fame center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar elaborated on his fractured relationship with the Los Angeles Lakers, saying Thursday he's been mistreated and the franchise no longer appreciates him.
During an in-studio interview with ESPN's "Mike & Mike in the Morning," Abdul-Jabbar explained and then expanded on his comments made to The Sporting News this week in which he said he felt "slighted" that the Lakers have not erected a statue of him outside Staples Center.
"It's about a whole lot of smaller incidents that as they pile up on you, you get the feeling that you don't mean anything to them," Abdul-Jabbar said Thursday. A day earlier, he voiced his complaints through a serious of tweets on his Twitter account. "I think in my tweets I said, 'What am I, chopped liver?' It's frustrating.
"For example, I had to take a cut in salary," said the six-time world champion, who over the past several years worked in many capacities with the Lakers, including as an assistant coach and consultant.
"At the same time they tell me I had to take a cut in salary they're paying the [head] coach $10 million-$12 million a year," he continued. "You wonder how much you count when they tell you stuff like that. We were flying on a plane back from Orlando two years ago [after the NBA Finals] and they put me in a tiny little seat that I couldn't be comfortable in and there were empty seats up there where coaches sat, which is where I usually flew with the team. It was little things like that, just little things that started to wear on me and make me feel like I wasn't appreciated and I certainly wasn't being treated like family."
Abdul-Jabbar said he didn't voice his frustrations about the way he felt he was treated at the time and only recently decided he should make his feelings public.
"My tendency is to grin and bear it because I figured there must be something happening that I don't understand and this is being done out of necessity," said Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA's all-time scoring leader. "Once I get the idea that that wasn't the case and it wasn't, I figured maybe it was time for me to speak out. I've never been this vocal about anything. I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy. It doesn't suit me, but something needed to be said."
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http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/news/story?id=6566583