Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says Americans have a choice "between hell and reason.” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar endorses Hillary Clinton

For Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, voting for Hillary Clinton in November is a slam dunk. Or perhaps a sky hook.

In a column for The Washington Post published online Saturday, Abdul-Jabbar — the NBA’s all-time leading scorer — says Americans have a choice "between hell and reason.”


“We are in a defining battle between the resurgence of the irrational, and all the horrors that have historically gone with it — violence, bigotry, fascism — and reason, with all the advances that have accompanied it — justice and freedom for all, regardless of ethnic background, social status, gender or sexual orientation,” he writes.

Abdul-Jabbar said that Clinton “possesses that rare but crucial combination of idealism and pragmatism.”

Of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Abdul-Jabbar said the leading Republican candidates have rejected “foundational ideals in favor of a hellish chaos of lies, misdirection, attacks on the Constitution and, most harmful to the country, a rejection of reason."