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The Unbearable Pressures Facing Lew Alcindor, 1970

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Sep 13, 2021
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[Bill Libby was one of the most prolific pro basketball authors of the 1970s, publishing classic biographies of Rick Barry, Spencer Haywood, and Jerry West. Here, the L.A.-based Libby weighs in on Lew Alcindor’s entry into the NBA following his record-setting career at UCLA. A quick point. Libby clearly finds Alcindor enigmatic and inscrutable. That mak…

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