NEW YORK — The story of young Lew Alcindor’s journey to basketball icon has been told, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar never truly opened about his life — until now.

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.

Oscar Robertson and Lew Alcindor won National Basketball Association championship rings as members of the Milwaukee Bucks in 1971. Their Bucks jersey numbers – Robertson’s No. 1 and Alcindor ...

The no-dunking rule was frankly aimed at Alcindor, the 7-ft. ¹⅜-in. U.C.L.A. sophomore who averaged 29 points a game this season while leading his team to a perfect 30-0 record and the N.C.A.A ...

"When it came to me being in high school and playing Lew Alcindor, when he walked through that door that day, we're all looking at a legend then and somebody that's going to be even more legendary ...

Watching John Wooden, Lew Alcindor and the Bruins roll to the NCAA title that season -- their second straight and fourth in five years -- was made more delicious because the Bruins were not perfect.

Riley and Linton beat Power Memorial and Lew Alcindor — Abdul-Jabbar’s name before converting to Islam — 74-68 that night. Abdul-Jabbar, then a 6-foot-10 freshman, ...

1945: A one-time basketball star in Schenectady, NY, Pat Riley’s high school team once beat Lew Alcindor’s team. Riley later coached him.