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Lew Alcindor: First Million-Dollar Baby? 1969

bobkuska
Feb 08, 2023
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[I recently had a conversation with a gentleman, now in his 90s but still sharp as a tack, about UCLA basketball and the John Wooden era. He did his fair share of grumbling, mainly because he’d been affiliated with rival USC basketball in the 1960s. Some of his grumbling was about Wooden, whom he claimed got more credit than he deserved. His point was W…

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