An accountant for the Los Angeles Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar ( born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. ; April 16 , 1947 ) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers . Los Angeles Lakers . After the retirement of West and Chamberlain , the team acquired another center , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar , who had won multiple MVP awards , but was unable to make the Finals in the late 1970s .