Kareem Abdul Jabbar - LA Lakers great has leukemia

One of my favorite all time great LA Lakers and the inventor of "The Sky Hook", the great center Kareem Abdul Jabbar has leukemia. According to the Associated Press, Kareem has been receiving treatments for a rare form of it, called "chronic myeloid leukemia", and is progressing well as of this writing.

Kareem Abdul Jabbar

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a kind of cancer of the blood cells. In Kareem Abdul Jabbar's case it showed up during a checkup as his white blood cell count being much higher than expected. CML is a clonal bone marrow stem cell disorder but its highly treatable and the survival rate is such that Kareem can expect to live a normal life.

My prayers are with him as he deals with this illness.