The holiday season brings forth the time for reflection on the year. 6x NBA champion Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently shared a message in his popular newsletter with a similar sentiment. The Hall of Famer produced a letter surrounding the theme of the holiday season and the approaching new year. However, staying true to his outspoken personality, the Los Angeles Lakers didn’t hesitate to include a controversial video in his evocative message.?

The video in question is a duet from the Christmas movie?Love Hard.?The music video features?The Vampire Diaries?star Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang. Incidentally, the duet in the movie is a parody of the original music video?Baby it’s cold outside?which received major backlash upon its release about a decade ago.?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shares a parody of a controversial Christmas music video

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been an ardent supporter of social justice causes over the years. Time and again, the Hall of Famer has voiced his opinions on several plaguing issues of society through voluble and inspiring messages. Consequently, he has developed a following over the years, evident in the meteoric rise in popularity of his newsletter. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar recently shared a holiday message in his popular newsletter.

The Los Angeles Lakers legend shared his main resolution for the upcoming calendar year in the letter. He confessed his resolution to be Kinder, which is the same every year. To quote the message behind his resolution,?” One act of kindness a day may not change the big, wide world, but it changes me, and it changes my world.”

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Besides revealing his resolution, Abdul-Jabbar also included a Christmas music video in the holiday message. However, the said music video is a duet from the movie Love Hard.?The video, which features Nina Dobrev and Jimmy O. Yang, is a parody of?Baby it’s cold outside,?which came out about a decade ago. The present video tries to water down the controversial lines of the video, making them acceptable.

Addressing the older version, Abdul-Jabbar?said, “The classic holiday song ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ has received some sharp criticism for lyrics that can certainly be interpreted as, at the very least, sexually suspect.” The Hall of Famer intended his audience to enjoy the song again but in a less polarizing way through Nina Dobrev’s duet in Love Hard.

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What do you think of the parody duet of Nina Dobrev in?Love Hard??Let us know in the comments below.