LAST WORD
“HE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO DO IT NOW.” Basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to the Associated Press on how his UCLA coach, legendary John Wooden, would handle today’s world of one-and-done players. AbdulJabbar, promoting his book, “Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-year Friendship On and Off the Court,” added, “It’s a travesty, I think. They’re just using the college system as a steppingstone to the NBA, and that’s really unfortunate.”