Art Director James Adamé and some talented folks cooked up this cool video with Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who in 2009 anounced that he was suffering from a form of leukemia, Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Abdul-Jabbar became a spokesman for Novartis, the company that produces his cancer medication, Gleevec. In February 2011 Abdul-Jabbar said ‘My cancer right now is at an absolute minimum”.
Writers Megan Cohen & Scott Whittier, Art Director James Adamé, Producer Andy Rosenthal, Director Matt Bieler, Edited by Peel N Eat, Sound by Soundtrack, Color by Nice Shoes, VFX by Brickyard.
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