Did Kareem Abdul-Jabbar lose millions on hotels made for tall people?

MTV's Rock and Jock Basketball is pretty much the most 1990s thing ever. Just one look at a clip from the event on YouTube takes you all the way back to Bill Clinton's first term as President, what with all the Dan Cortese, East Bay Funk Dunks, Michael Rapaport, and Cranberries bumper music. Nothing but good times can come from a bit of Rock and Jock, right? Well, not to Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament. He was a famed Rock and Jock vet entering his third year on the program, but when MTV brought in Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to man the Violator sidelines in 1994, the notoriously aloof former Lakers center rubbed Ament the wrong way. Ament, who grew up idolizing Kareem and was anxious to meet his basketball idol, took out his frustrations in song, namely the tune "Sweet Lew" that eventually showed up on Pearl Jam's 2003 rarities album, "Lost Dogs." In it, Ament chides Kareem for his apparent stake in a failed chain of hotels built solely for tall p...