Word: alcindor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everybody Calling. By contrast, Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft.½in. U.C.L.A. All America center, has already been offered a 40,000-acre ranch stocked with 3,500 head of cattle, if he will please, please play in the fledgling American Basketball Association; that's in addition to the $1,000,000 he is expected to receive when he joins the pros. During his career, Ben Hogan earned less than $300,000 on the links. This year Arnold Palmer Enterprises will meet a payroll of more than $1,000,000, covering his interests in such businesses as dry cleaning...
Early last year, when U.S. Olympic Basketball Coach Hank Iba was trying to round up a team for Mexico City, he learned to his dismay that Lew Alcindor, the U.C.L.A. skyscraper, and several other Negro stars were planning to skip the Games. The best Iba could do for center was Spencer Haywood, 19, a 6-ft. 8-in. player from Colorado's Trinidad State Junior College...
...University of Detroit, Haywood has many a U.S. coach talking like the awed Yugoslav. Last week his average of 23.8 rebounds per game was best among major college players; he stood third in scoring (31 average) and ninth in field-goal percentage (62%), which places him ahead of Alcindor in the first two categories. In Detroit's 71-68 victory over then undefeated St. Bonaventure, Haywood bagged 15 points and 16 rebounds. His only apparent weaknesses: he can be forced into an occasional bad pass or haphazard shot...
...confident that he could have starred in the Olympics even if Alcindor and the boycotters had played. "I think I'm just as good as they are," says Haywood, who is hoping to prove it in a confrontation with Alcindor at the post-season N.C.A.A. tournament...
...this year's team hardly ranked with the star-studded squads of the past. Notably absent were the top two collegiate players of last season: U.C.L.A.'s Lew Alcindor, who pleaded pressure of studies, and Houston's Elvin Hayes, who chose to sign a $440,000 contract with the pro San Diego Rockets instead of going to Mexico. The tallest man on the starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year...