“He has a tough job”. The co-author gives readers a sense of what they’ll learn from the novel: “The use of mourning jewelry, which deadly poison grows on trees, and who or what creates those eerie, backwards-facing footprints in the sand, the ones that set this story in motion”.
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Alford took UCLA to back-to-back Sweet 16s in his first two years as coach, which apparently isn’t up to snuff for Abdul-Jabbar.
UCLA is one of the most-decorated programs in college basketball history, but Bruins legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar isn’t pleased with the on-court direction of his alma mater. “I think that’s a real disappointment to those of us who are a part of the tradition”.
He continued, “Americans are judged on their character when they run for office”.
“You know, I’m not trying to sit on the sidelines and throw stones at Coach Alford”.
Vecenie notes that there may be some sour grapes because Abdul-Jabbar inquired about the UCLA job in 2013, which was eventually filled by Alford.
Abdul-Jabbar called Carson’s words “an expression of bigotry” and rejected Carson’s recent efforts to clarify his position.
UCLA has improved steadily from November to March in both Alford’s two seasons and Norman Powell, Tony Parker and Kyle Anderson are among the many players who developed rapidly under his tutelage.
Written with Anna Waterhouse, Abdul-Jabbar’s novel centers on Mycroft as a younger man, before he became the master of deduction whose powers rival even those of his famous brother.
So the question that I ask when I read a criticism like this is simply: why?
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Wooden’s former players might want to follow that same approach. It’s only making that task more hard.
