Abdul-Jabbar, formerly Lew Alcindor, was a tremendously gifted ... "You can't compare them. John Wooden has forgotten more about the game than Pat Riley will ever get to know," Abdul-Jabbar ...

Lew Alcindor, Bill Walton, and John Wooden haven’t played or coached for UCLA inside Pauley Pavilion since the late 1960s and early 1970s, but the Iowa men’s basketball team allowed the 2024-25 ...

LOS ANGELES -- A U.S. stamp honoring John Wooden was unveiled on the UCLA campus ... The 76-year-old was known as Lew Alcindor during his college days, when he was a three-time national player ...

John Wooden seemingly did it all ... and he was always his own best example," said Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor when he led UCLA to three NCAA titles from 1967-69). "He discouraged expressing ...

Under his leadership, UCLA set an NCAA record with 88 consecutive wins and produced legendary players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then Lew Alcindor) and Bill Walton. Though Wooden retired in 1975 ...