“Coach Wooden and Me” by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar; Grand Central 304 pages, $29 You will be hard-pressed to find photos on the front and back covers of a book that more vividly describe what is written inside than those on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s “Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court.” The front cover is a shot of a somewhat rigid Abdul-Jabbar, then known as Lew Alcindor, as a young player at UCLA [...]
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