Kareem Abdul-Jabbar may have broken his hip after a nasty fall at a concert Friday night, but the UCLA and Lakers legend’s sense of humor is still fully intact.
Abdul-Jabbar offered his take on the incident — “Humpty Kareem had a great fall,” he joked in the very first sentence — in a Substack post written days after taking a tumble while attending a performance by the Manhattan Transfer at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.
“I’d like to say I fell while trying to save a child from plunging over a balcony, but I just tripped,” the NBA’s No.