It seems it wasn’t the brightest idea to cross Kareem Abdul-Jabbar . Former Los Angeles Lakers teammate Michael Cooper learned that the hard way when he found himself on the receiving end of the legendary center’s harsh comeuppance.
In an interview with Sportskeeda, Abdul-Jabbar shared when Cooper smacked a newspaper out of his hand while he was reading it. Kareem warned him he would regret that, and the opportunity for vengeance came when the Lakers were on a long plane ride to New Orleans.
“Coop was behind me asleep,” KAJ said . “So I took some Nair and put a stripe of it down the top of his head. Then, I didn’t do anything else. When we landed, Magic [Johnson] said, ‘Hey, Coop, what is that?’ He tried to wipe it off. He left a big bare spot on his head (laughs). He had to figure out how to deal with that.”
Sweet revenge for “Cap”
Some might think giving Cooper a hair removal treatment as punishment for interrupting a reading session might be too harsh. However, it looks like Coop and Byron Scott loved poking fun at their superstar teammate.