He tells students, 'The shortest way to wherever it is you want to go is through education.'
It was Thurmond who asked six-time NBA champion Abdul-Jabbar to spread his message of education. The former basketball great now has a foundation called Skyhook which focuses on teaching students about science, technology, engineering, arts and math.
"But if you get that education, the only limits on where you go, are the limits that you put on that," said Abdul-Jabbar. He grew up in Harlem and recently wrote a book about the New York Rens, the first all Black men's basketball team formed in 1923."Eventually the ball stops bouncing so wherever it takes you, I think all the coaches and people who supported you hope you can take what you learned in basketball and move forward in your life," Mari Somvichian, the co-captain of the Oakland Tech Women's Basketball Team.
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