with whom he won four championships in the 1980s during the team’s “Showtime” era with Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (the one-time Lew Alcindor). L.A. won back-to-back titles in 1987 ...

Fans attending the game will receive a commemorative poster "that celebrates ... UCLA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (formerly known as Lew Alcindor) became the first two UCLA men's basketball players ...

No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 2 Houston. Lew Alcindor vs. Elvin Hayes. John Wooden, the “Wizard of Westwood” and architect of UCLA’s 10-time championship dynasty, and Guy V. Lewis, the Cougars’ polka ...

New York City alone has 50-odd high school players taller than 6 ft. 5 in.—but Power’s Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker ...

2000 — Eddie House scores 61 points to tie Lew Alcindor’s Pac-10 record and lead the Sun Devils to 111-108 double-overtime victory over California. 2003 — Utah guard Mark Jackson becomes the ...

Now Lew Alcindor is 19, a sophomore playing his first varsity year, and all the nightmares are coming true. He has grown to an awesome 7 ft. 1⅜ in., and in his initial two games he has shown why ...

During the time he was playing in high school, he first faced off against one of the greatest athletes in the sport's history, Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), in a game that would go down in ...

That is how Roger Kahn of Sport magazine had summed up “Lew Alcindor’s Life as a Pro” back in February 1970. The Milwaukee Bucks’ seven-foot-two center seemed emblematic of the growing ...

“Biden would’ve called him Lew AlCindor,” said one fan. “It woulda been 10x funnier if he called him “The Freak”,” said another fan “He was talking about thanasis,” said another fa ...

You could go 1-2, 2-1 on where Lew Alcindor (as he was known at the time ... love for the Grateful Dead — the official tie-dyed poster boys. He once led a contingent of every Celtic but one ...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (still Lew Alcindor when he played for Wooden) and Bill Walton. Add in Wooden’s quirks, like being scared of L.A. traffic and believing ice in water causes stomach cramps ...

While Lew Alcindor was pretty clearly his best player ... Christian Laettner is the poster child for that, as his basketball brilliance (and antics) drove opposing fans crazy.