"I don't understand it. It's either an oversight or they're taking me for granted," Abdul-Jabbar told The Sporting News in a recent interview. "I'm not going to try to read people's minds, but it doesn't make me happy. It's definitely a slight. I feel slighted."
And why does Mr. Abdul-Jabbar feel so slighted, you ask? Because no statue of him has been erected outside the Staples Center arena. Where, incidentally, he never played.