You Tube Gold: Kareem vs. Bruce Lee

Photo by Concord Productions Inc./Golden Harvest Company/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images American actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Chinese American martial artist and actor Bruce Lee on the set of Game of Death, written and directed by Robert Clouse.Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is rightly known as one of the finest basketball players of all time. His hook shot was a thing of beauty.

However, he also has a lesser known career as an actor.

Although he typically plays himself, Kareem also has had some fictional roles. He famously portrayed co-pilot Roger Murdock in Airplane for instance, but his most interesting role may have been in a martial arts movie.

In 1974, Kareem played Hakim in the Game Of…