Global Cultural Ambassador Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has just been appointed to the diplomatic post by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the State Department in Washington, DC. A legendary Los Angeles Lakers basketball champion, best-selling author and Hollywood actor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 64, will now travel the world to engage a generation of young people to help promote diplomacy on behalf of the United States of America. “It’s a great honor and I’m thrilled that they see me as the person that could get this done,” Abdul-Jabbar declared.