The six-time NBA champion made it clear that his comments were not intended as criticism of Clark herself. Instead, he argued that placing any second-year player above a generation of established superstars diminishes what others have accomplished. “Don’t get me wrong: Clark is a very good, possibly even a great, player,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “But calling any one player the face of the league, absent the sort of on-court and cross-platform dominance of a Michael Jordan or a LeBron James, is an insult to an awful lot of great players.”
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