New Feature – SRI Pimp Of The Week
March 13, 2009 – 10:35 am by Jimmy Shapiro
Not sure how this is going to work out, but here at SRI, I’m always trying to think of new features or staples for the website. I’ll be launching a new one as well next week.
Part of my responsibilities here at SRI requires me to comb all the sports radio stations to see what kind of newsworthy, interesting, or funny interviews are out there. Ultimately, I end up coming across a name or two that is all over the sports radio landscape for a given week. I don’t mean guys like John Clayton who do 7-10 radio interviews every week during the football season. I’m talking more along the lines of Christian Laettner a few weeks back doing 15 interviews across the country to talk about his commercial with Rick Pitino for Vitamin Water. Hence the name “Pimp of the Week“.
By the way, that’s a pic of me and Don Magic Juan from the 2007 Super Bowl in Miami. A terrible pic of me as I’m much better looking than that and skinny (although that pic makes me look fat), but you have to love Don Magic Juan. He even let me hold his goblet.
Most weeks there will be one or two guys pimping a product, book, movie, or a TV show that I’ll find blanketed across many of the top sports radio markets in the country.
Our first SRI Pimp of the Week is a sports legend. He’s won lots of championships, was one of the first athletes to shave his head, has been trying for years to break back into the sport he dominated, and was in at least two movies I can think of.
If you haven’t guessed it by now, find out after the jump.
He was on 10 radio stations that I saw and was born Lew Alcindor, but is better know today as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Kareem was pimping a hoop IQ program and a website called www.hoopiq.com. Here’s a quote from the goggled one and the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on KJR in Seattle.
“I’ve seen that the whole idea of teamwork and sportsmanship really has suffered recently. You know the younger players don’t seem to get it that it’s a team game. So many of them have been raised watching play of the day and they think it’s about what an individual does at a certain moment in the game. The game of basketball is about what five guys can do working together and being fundamentally sound. So it’s my effort to have an impact on that situation.”
