Kareem Abdul-Jabbar In Great Spirits After Breaking Hip In Bad Fall

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is clearly recovering properly after breaking his hip throughout a nasty fall final week — ‘trigger he is now firing off jokes in regards to the scenario, calling himself “Humpty Kareem!”

The NBA legend shared an replace on his standing on his Substack web page on Monday … revealing he was really on his approach to delivering a speech at The Manhattan Transfer’s live performance on Friday at Disney Hall in Los Angeles when the spill occurred.

“I’d like to say I fell while trying to save a child from plunging over a balcony,” he wrote, “but I just tripped.”

“Hard for me to accept that a once world-class athlete just stumbled. But age is the great equalizer and humbles us all.”

The 76-year-old, although, shared a snap of him in a hospital mattress with an enormous grin — showing to indicate that his rehab is transferring easily.

Abdul-Jabbar additionally thanked all the primary responders who cared for him after he went down … and he vowed to be up and at ’em once more shortly.

“All my best to you from my hospital bed,” he wrote. “Me and my new hip will be dancing to [The Manhattan Transfer’s] tunes again.”

“Well,” he continued, “gently swaying.”