Word: alcindor
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...says Wootten, come to him with "every imaginable problem there is," from breaking up with a girlfriend to family troubles. Former players sometimes return to ask their old coach's advice about marital problems, or to seek help in finding a job. Says Bob Whitmore, who held Lew Alcindor to 16 points in the only game the New Yorker's high school team lost: "The one outstanding quality Morgan has is his honesty. When you are streetwise like I was, you learn to read that." Sid Catlett, a Notre Dame graduate who had a brief NBA career, credits...
When the young McLaughlin was not playing for St. Barnabas grammar school, he was spending summer vacation at Jack Donohue's basketball camp in Saugertes, N.Y. One of the other precocious basketball prodigies enrolled at the camp was Lew Alcindor, now known as Kareem Abdul Jabbar, whom Donohue later coached at Power Memorial...
...Papa Sam began his relationship with U.C.L.A. basketball in the mid-1960s, when former All-America Willie Naulls brought two disgruntled sophomores, Lew Alcindor (now Jabbar) and Lucius Allen, to him for some counseling. Alcindor and Allen in turn brought their teammates, and Sam eventually negotiated the professional contracts of Alcindor, Allen and other Bruin stars, such as Sidney Wicks, Henry Bibby and Nater. Like all his other services, Gilbert's agentry comes free. "I do it because I'm a friend and also a savvy businessman who knows most of the tricks and clauses that the kids...
...them to play as a team." Cynics scoff at such talk; talented giants, not playground bromides, they say, account for U.C.L.A.'S success. Wooden is, in fact, currently graced with 6-ft. 11-in. Bill Walton, the best center in college basketball. And before Walton, U.C.L.A. had Lew Alcindor, the 7-ft. 2-in. pivotman who led the Bruins to three national titles, then turned pro and changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Yet it is also a fact that Wooden won his first N.C.A.A. championship in 1964 with a starting team whose average height was a pygmyesque...
...Silugo Green. 31. Alcindor, Allen. Shackleford and Heintz. Heintz never started after that year. 32. Jerry West against the Knicks; the Knicks won. 33. The Rochester Royals. Syracuse Nationals, St. Louis Hawks. Boston Celtics. N.Y. Knicks. Ft. Wayne Pistons. Philadelphia Warriors and Minneapolis Lakers...