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The coach had a simple sell to Kareem when he wanted him to add the skyhook to his game: "You're going to make an awful lot of money"
"So we started working on that hook across the middle, and he took to it very well, and that was the beginning of the Skyhook ... didn't only help Kareem or Lew Alcindor - as he was known ...
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"Most of the people who dunk are Black athletes" - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar saw the NCAA's no-dunk rule as racially motivated
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly known as Lew Alcindor, was a phenomenon on the ... back to a shot he used throughout his childhood - the skyhook. Though head coach John Wooden was initially ...
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High School Basketball: The Courtship of Lew Alcindor
New York City alone has 50-odd high school players taller than 6 ft. 5 in.—but Power’s Lew Alcindor, at 7 ft. 1 in. and 235 Ibs., is a giant among the giants. He wears a size 16D sneaker ...