40 minutes for a regulation college game), but Lew is averaging 31 points a game, and no less an authority than Wilt (“The Stilt”) Chamberlain,* a seven-footer of note himself, calls Alcindor ...
Duke freshman Cooper Flagg is expected to join the distinguished company of Oscar Robertson, Elgin Baylor, Kareem ...
Perhaps Wilt Chamberlain wasn't the greatest big ... including a Western Conference Finals game versus Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and the Milwaukee Bucks.
As a New York City high school basketball star then known as Lew Alcindor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was befriended by the Dipper. He became a regular at Big Wilt's Smalls Paradise and often visited his ...
From a 1996 interview, Nate Thurmond talks about how he prepared to play Kareem Abdul-Jabbar the first time, he scouted his first game vs Wilt Chamberlain!