<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Passings: The father of Lakers great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar died Friday in New York City. Ferdinand L. Alcindor, a former New York police officer, was 86 and had battled dementia. Alcindor was a band member when Marilyn Monroe famously sang "Happy Birthday" to President John F. Kennedy in 1962 and was a teammate of former New York Knicks coach Red Holzman on a city championship handball team. </div> Source Prays go out to his family.
