Lew Alcindor at 16: 'A Star Has Been Born'

[Today, he’s known as just Kareem. No last name required. One of pro basketball’s all-time greats. But in the mid-1960s, Kareem entered popular culture as Lew Alcindor (his birth name), recognized as the game-changing, sky-hook-shooting, seven-foot giant who roamed the paint for John Wooden’s seemingly invincible UCLA Bruins. 

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