In NBA Rookie Race, It’s Lew 145 Votes to One, 1970

[Bob Wolf covered sports for the Milwaukee Journal from the 1940s through the mid-1980s. One of his higher profile gigs was writing a weekly NBA column for The Sporting News. The high-profile national exposure made Wolf a real NBA insider when Lew Alcindor, now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, broke in with the Milwaukee Bucks during the 1969-70 season. 

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