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John Fong, a UCLA history graduate, finally walks in his commencement ceremony 57 years after missing it due to Vietnam War deployment.

UCLA's Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, shoots over Dayton's Ned Sharpenter in the 1967 national title game. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO ...

He earned first-team All-America honors both seasons and was a consensus pick in 1968 along with UCLA’s Lew Alcindor, Houston’s Elvin Hayes, LSU’s Pete Maravich and Louisville’s Wes Unseld.

It's a line taken from the broadcast of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's first game in the NBA on Oct. 18, 1969 — an event approaching its 50th anniversary. Then known as Lew Alcindor, the 7-1 superstar ...

Blessed by the dominant inside play of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor), Sidney Wicks, Curtis Rowe and Bill Walton, Wooden won seven consecutive titles from 1967-73.

Built around sophomore sensation Lew Alcindor, who later changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Bruins' average margin of victory topped 25 points per game.

Like Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor during his time at UCLA) and Walton before her, the 6-foot-7 Betts was a force for UCLA near the basket Sunday night at Pauley Pavilion.

Houston’s Elvin Hayes, who averaged over 37 points per game, was held to just 10, as Lew Alcindor and UCLA won by 32. In 2017, a 1966-67 Alcindor game-worn jersey sold for $137,849.

Anyway, Alcindor leveraged the slam dunk to win three national championships as his UCLA Bruins lost only two games in three years. Basketball purists hated the dunk, seeing it as a sign of disrespect ...

Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, and John Wooden haven’t played or coached for UCLA inside Pauley Pavilion since the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the Iowa men’s basketball team allowed the 2024-25 ...