NBA Stars Then and Now: What Did Famous Hoopsters Look Like as Kids?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

IMAGE BY: The New York Times

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Back when he was Lew Alcindor, he led Power Memorial HThigh School to three consecutive New York City Catholic championships, a 71-game winning streak, and a 79–2 mark overall. The team won the national championship when he was a junior, then fell just short a year later. All this despite an ignorant coach, who, Abdul-Jabbar revealed in 2017, called him the N-word.

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