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Title Time!
NBA Hall Of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Feels Gratified For Leading His USBL
Team To A Championship.
It wasn't another NBA
title, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says he got plenty of satisfaction in seeing
his Oklahoma Storm capture its first USBL championship.
The Storm defeated Kansas
122-109 on Sunday 6.30.02, before a crowd of 1,100.
After the victory, Abdul-Jabbar, who helped the Los Angeles Lakers win six
NBA championships, waved the gleaming trophy above his head as confetti
streamed down from the roof of the Mark Price Arena.
"When I played
in the playgrounds of New York I wanted to win, that was important,"
Abdul-Jabbar said. "It doesn't matter where you are. It doesn't matter
what level you are in, winning is a great accomplishment and is gratifying."
Abdul-Jabbar helped
the Storm overcome a 4-8 start and mesh several new players to win the title.
"Being able to
help these guys do what they want to do, to get them noticed; I am honored
and thankful for it," he said.
"This is wonderful. When this team started it was brand new, the players didn't know each other, the coaches didn't know each other, we began to rebuild, and that is the way Kareem wanted it. We struggled early, but we began to play well late and the rest is history," Said Storm owner James Bryant.
The Championship Game MVP was Ira Clark of the Storm.
Clark led the Oklahoma with 29 points and 9 rebounds, five other players were in double figures for the Storm.
If the Storm repeat as champions in 2003, the team will have a new coach.
After just one season with Oklahoma, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar resigned Tuesday 07.02.2 as coach of the USBL champions.
