Lakers’ LeBron James just keeps winning Emmys with Daytime award
LeBron James isn’t just winning on the court. The Los Angeles Lakers superstar earned another piece of hardware on Saturday when a show he produced won the Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding daytime special at the Creative Arts and Lifestyle ceremony in Los Angeles, per the Associated Press.
James was the executive producer of “Recipe for Change: Standing Up to Antisemitism” alongside his business partner Maverick Carter, among others. It is James’ fourth Emmy award and second this year, adding to his already crowded trophy case.
James has proven to be so much more than just a basketball player throughout his 21-year NBA career. This latest achievement goes along with that and is a sentiment of who James is outside of basketball.
On the basketball court, James continues to be one of the best players in the NBA. Approaching his 39th birthday, the Lakers frontman can still do it all at a consistently high level. He is averaging over 25 points, 7.5 rebounds and seven assists per game across 25 games.
The Lakers are 15-11 and have won five of their last seven games, including the In-Season Tournament knockout games en route to becoming the inaugural champions. James has arguably been the Lakers’ best player this season and continues to defy Father Time and play NBA basketball at a high and consistent level.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar faces 3 months of recovery after surgery for broken hip
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LOS ANGELES — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is recovering from surgery for a broken hip after he fell at a concert in Los Angeles.
The NBA Hall of Famer had surgery Sunday “with no complications,” his business partner and spokeswoman, Deborah Morales, told The Associated Press on Monday.
“He will be in recovery for the next three months,” she wrote via text.
Abdul-Jabbar was attending a show Friday night when he was injured. Paramedics at the undisclosed venue responded and the 76-year-old was taken to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
He was a key player on the Los Angeles Lakers’ teams during their “Showtime” era in the 1980s, leading them to five NBA championships.
“I’m wishing my Showtime teammate Kareem Abdul-Jabbar a speedy recovery after falling and breaking his hip! Praying for the Captain!” Magic Johnson posted on social media over the weekend.
The 7-foot-2 center was the NBA’s career scoring leader until being passed by current Laker LeBron James in February. Abdul-Jabbar owned the mark for 39 years.
Giannis Antetokounmpo had 17 rebounds in a win Sunday night to overtake Abdul-Jabbar as the Milwaukee Bucks’ career rebounding leader. Abdul-Jabbar won the first of his six NBA MVP awards during his years there before being traded to the Lakers in 1975.
He starred at UCLA, where he was known as Lew Alcindor and was a three-time national player of the year under coach John Wooden.
Abdul-Jabbar disclosed in 2020 that he had prostate cancer. In 2009, he said he had been diagnosed the previous year with chronic myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer.