Kareem faces 3 months of recovery after surgery for broken hip
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Kareem faces 3 months of recovery after surgery for broken hip

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is recovering from surgery for a broken hip after he fell at a concert in Los Angeles.

The basketball 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 the Manhattan Transfer’s concert at Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles on Friday night when he was injured. Paramedics at the venue responded and took 76-year-old by ambulance to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

“I'd like to say I fell while trying to save a child from plunging over the balcony, but I just tripped,” he posted Monday on his Substack account. “Hard for me to accept that a once world-class athlete just stumbled. But age is the great equalizer and humbles us all.”

Abdul-Jabbar wrote that he had hip replacement surgery “like 450,000 other Americans every year.”

He had been scheduled to read a letter from Vice President Kamala Harris to the venerable vocal group before his fall. The Manhattan Transfer was celebrating its 50th anniversary before performing for the last time.