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  1.                                  twice while winning 88
  2.                                  games, in three varsity
  3.                                  seasons. Kareem was
  4.                                  such an unstoppable
  5.                                  scorer that, in 1967, the
  6. NCAA outlawed dunking to slow him down.
  7. (The dunk was legalized again nine years
  8. later.) UCLA collected three national cham-
  9. pionships during KareemΓÇÖs college career.
  10. He won two College Player of the Year 
  11. awards and was a three-time NCAA 
  12. tournament Most Outstanding Player. 
  13.  
  14. After such an amazing college career, it was 
  15. no surprise that Kareem was drafted first 
  16. overall in the 1969 NBA draft. The team 
  17. he joined, the Milwaukee Bucks, had                                  finished that season in last place -- 
  18. but they did not stay there for long. 
  19.  
  20.