Former Nuggets guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf’s troubled life is chronicled in “Stand,” Showtime’s documentary airing Friday and directed by Joslyn Rose Lyons. MileHighBasketball
Sadly, Gathers would have gone in the first round had he not died one month and a day after the LSU game from a heart condition.
“You don’t want to be at 53 what you were at 20. Something’s wrong,” added the now 53-year old Abdul-Rauf with a deep chuckle. Aldridge wonders if anyone knows about the third stanza of the anthem, especially lines five and six which read:Abdul-Rauf is appreciative of what he pointed out, noting when some people get on camera, “they don’t want to say certain things.”There’s Shaquille O’Neal, Stephen Curry, Steve Kerr, Jalen Rose, Ice Cube, and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali who played college ball at St. Mary’s College of California. There’s even old footage of Mike Tyson and Dennis Rodman.
“As good as Pete Maravich was, Abdul-Rauf’s game was one that involved all the other players,” noted Brown.Today, Abdul-Rauf is still quick on the court, but in Cube’s Big3 three-on-three, half-court basketball tourney, he gets to show what he’s got against former NBA players who are still younger than him.
“I’m hoping to get into the coaching aspect of the Big3,” he said. “Some of us are still competitive and still move.”After his protest while playing for the Denver Nuggets, he was suspended , reinstated with rules, traded to Sacramento, played one more year in the NBA with Vancouver and then became a basketball nomad playing in Russia, Turkey, Italy, Greece, Saudi Arabia and Japan.“Everybody owes him and apology.
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