Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is in the NBA Hall of Fame, won three national championships in three years at UCLA and was a three-time All-American. He, apparently, is not pleased with the state of the UCLA basketball program.

Abdul-Jabbar went on NBA Today on SiriusXM radio and spoke critically of the state of the Bruins.

“People used to learn how to play the game at UCLA,” he said. “And I don’t think that’s happening now.”

At one point during the interview, parts of which were reported on Twitter by Diamond Leung of the Bay Area News Group, Abdul-Jabbar said that he’s “not trying to sit on the sideline and throw stones at [UCLA] Coach [Steve] Alford. He has a tough job.”


Then the criticism continued.

“I watched them in the playoffs,” he said. “They don’t even know how to run the fast break.”

He continued: “I think that that’s a real disappointment to those of us who are part of the tradition.”

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