Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is on a mission to have the most varied post-N.B.A. career of all time. The former athlete turned sometime actor and writer has, as of late, enjoyed a turn as a pop-cultural critic, weighing in on everything from movie villains of the Trump era, to the perils of reality shows like Southern Charm and The Bachelorette in his column for The Hollywood Reporter. He’s also written a few books of nonfiction, one of which he adapted into a documentary in 2011. And now, Abdul-Jabbar is making his truest modern-media move yet . . . by pivoting to TV writing. The N.B.A. Hall of Famer has joined the writing team for Hulu’s reboot of Veronica Mars, according to show creator Rob Thomas. He announced the writing staff late Monday.

“If you’re brilliant and give yourself a #PartyDown Twitter handle, I'’l hire you,” he joked in his announcement. Then, he acknowledged the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-ness of it all: “Or, you could be the N.B.A.’s all time leading scorer, but you must still be brilliant.”

When a fan followed up to ask if Abdul-Jabbar really, truly was on the show’s writing staff, Thomas simply responded, “.yes.” We’re sure the typo was an honest mistake, but there’s something so wonderfully avant about putting the period before the statement.

While it may seem completely random for Abdul-Jabbar to join this particular team, there is one obvious thread tying him to Thomas. The former athlete dusted off his acting hat (hello, Roger Murdock! last summer to play a small role in the CW series iZombie, another series created by Thomas.

The rest of the Veronica Mars writing team is comprised of David Walpert, Diane Ruggiero (a Veronica Mars 1.0 alum), Raymond Obstfeld, and Heather V. Regnier (whose Twitter handle, in keeping with the retired basketball star theme here, is “RickFoxTheActor”—so good). Mars revolves around its central, titular character, played by Kristen Bell; it may have been nice to see a more heavily female writers’ room, but on the other hand, we have now been given the future bar trivia fun fact of Abdul-Jabbar’s debut TV writing gig. So there’s that.

Bell officially announced the reboot was a go on September 20 (via gorgeous, potato-quality Twitter video. The new season will be comprised of eight episodes and will pick up five years after the events of the 2014 Veronica Mars movie. It will incorporate plot points that Thomas introduced in follow-up books The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line and Mr. Kiss and Tell, though Thomas also told fans to expect a little wiggle room: “Books are 98% canon,” he wrote on Twitter. The other 2 percent of canon? That’s all Abdul-Jabbar, baby.