Word: alcindor
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...baby weighs 225 Ibs., stands 7 ft. 1 in., and loves to play rough. Just ask Jay Carty, a onetime Oregon State basketball star now studying for his doctor's degree at U.C.L.A. He was hired this fall to look after the Bruins' prize prospect: towering Lew Alcindor, 18, the ex-Manhattan schoolboy who was the most-sought-after high school player in the U.S. last year. When Alcindor turned out for the U.C.L.A. freshman team this fall, he showed lots of promise and precious little else. "He just stood there with his hands down," recalls Bruins Coach...
Carty put Alcindor on a crash training program. For openers each day, Lew had to jump up and touch a line on the backboard 15 times in a row. The line was 11½ ft. high. Next, Alcindor practiced "stuffing" shots-jamming balls into the basket from above. After that, Carty and Lew squared off for a game of two-man basketball: the winner was the first to score 20 points. "I jumped on him," admits Carty. "I did everything I could to try and rattle...
...last, Lew was ready for a public game against the Bruin varsity, the No. 1-ranked college team in the U.S. Alcindor scored 31 points, pulled down 21 rebounds, blocked 7 shots, and the Brubabes clobbered the Bruins, 75-60. All of which may just make the U.C.L.A. freshmen the best team in the U.S.-considering that the varsity then went out and clobbered Ohio State...
...have always been captivated by California," sighed Lew Alcindor-and instantly broke the heart of every college basketball coach east of Los Angeles. The most sought-after high school player in the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 22), Alcindor, 18, stands 7 ft. 1 in. and weighs 235 Ibs.; over the course of three seasons at Manhattan's Power Memorial Academy, he scored 2,067 points and pulled down 2,002 rebounds. He had scholarship offers from some 60 colleges, and when he made his choice last week, newsmen crammed the Power gym to hear the announcement. "I have chosen U.C.L.A...
...colleges have invited Lew to look them over. Boston College Coach Bob Cousy writes him mash notes; Princeton, Cincinnati and St. John's would all like invitations to his graduation this June. And the pros, who have four years to wait, are already saving up: they figure that Alcindor will start out somewhere around $50,000 a year. Imagine. All that fuss over a 17-year-old who has only grown one inch in the last two years...