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 ...

UCLA fights back to make the big plays in the final minutes of an epic victory over No. 9 Michigan State, the Bruins' sixth ...

The eyes of America were firmly set on Milwaukee as the NBA welcomed its newest star Lew Alcindor. Relive his debut game in which he scored 29 points and led the Bucks past the Pistons.

The college basketball 'Game of the Century' between No. 1 UCLA and No. 2 UH proved the TV audience potential for the sport and helped launch March Madness.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson caught up courtside as they watched UCLA defeat Michigan State in dramatic fashion.

Today’s question: A new era dawned at UCLA basketball in 1967 with the arrival of Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). He dominated college basketball like nobody before him and the Bruins ...

For much of its history, college basketball was dominated by big men. Suiting up someone from Bob Kurland or Bill Russell to UCLA's run of Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Bill Walton ...