NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A few days after putting a comment on his Twitter account that he was cancer free, legendary basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said Thursday that it was a “misstatement.”
“You’re never really cancer free and I should have known that,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “My cancer right now is at an absolute minimum.”
The 63-year-old Abdul-Jabbar, a six-time NBA Most Valuable Player, was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 2008. He spoke Thursday at Science Park High School, after the initial screening of his new full-length documentary, “On the Shoulders of Giants.”
“It’s not life-threatening,” he said, “at this point in my life.”
