Basketball legends' sports card attracts collectors A sports card featuring the iconic basketball players Wilt Chamberlain, Lew Alcindor (later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and Johnny Green is ...

UCLA Bruins center Lew Alcindor (33) later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in action against the Dayton Flyers during the 1967 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Freedom Hall.

Lew Alcindor was the Bucks’ top overall pick in the 1969 NBA Draft. He converted to Islam in 1971, reverting to the name Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. However, before that, he led Milwaukee to the 1971 ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly known as Lew Alcindor in college, is one of the greatest basketball players ever. In his legendary career, he nearly went undefeated in college, playing a critical ...

Boyd’s notion: pretend that Alcindor is just another man on the U.C.L.A. roster, let him take his shots—and pray that he misses. Lew took his shots all right—32 of them—and he hit on 23.

UCLA center Lew Alcindor, now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was the prize of that college draft class. Phoenix was 16-66 in the West and Milwaukee was 27-55 in the East and the league had to flip a coin to ...