Fans of NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are in shock right now after his 28 year-old son was arrested for stabbing a neighbor multiple times.

Fox News reported that Adam Abdul Jabbar, 28, was arrested this week on one count of assault with a deadly weapon for a stabbing that took place on Tuesday night in San Clemente. A police spokesman told TMZ that officers were called about a stabbing at around 10pm that night.

“The suspect, who is the neighbor of the victim, was arrested without incident,” the spokesman said, adding that the unidentified victim was rushed to the hospital “with multiple non-life-threatening injuries.”

The spokesman added that an investigation into the incident is still underway. Adam’s booking sheet describes him as 6-foot-7 and 180 pounds, and police say he has since been released. When TMZ contacted Abdul Jabbar for a comment, his representative hung up on them immediately.

Adam appeared with his father, who is in the NBA hall of fame, on a 2017 episode of “Celebrity Family Feud.”

Abdul-Jabbar himself has been speaking out quite a bit in recent weeks after the death of George Floyd.

“What I want to see is not a rush to judgment, but a rush to justice,” the NBA legend said after Floyd’s death, going on to add about police reform, “Hopefully we have the political will to do something.”

Abdul-Jabbar comes from a law enforcement family, as his father was a police officer in New York and his grandfather was a cop in Trinidad, something he has been thinking about a lot lately.

“My dad made a whole lot of the Black Americans in our neighborhood proud because he conducted himself in a very upright way,” he said, according to WBUR. “And my dad was decorated twice and retired as a lieutenant. I always had a lot of respect for my dad.”

In the end Abdul-Jabbar thinks people are finally “seeing how bad it can be” when it comes to racism.

“It’s like what Dr. [Martin Luther King Jr.] told us, we have to have a real commitment,” he said. “We have to keep hitting the subject and reiterating what the truth is before we get to the point where the people that we’re talking to will listen to us and help us effect change.”

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