EDITOR’S NOTE
To help celebrate SCD’s 50th anniversary, we look back at some of the top card sets from 1973, our first year of publication. We take a look at 1973 Topps Basketball.
It took just one magnificent rookie season for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (or Lew Alcindor as he was known then) to emerge as the most dominant player in the NBA in the 1970s.
The 1969-70 Rookie of the Year, Alcindor led the Milwaukee Bucks to their first NBA championship in 1970-71 — the same year he changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — and won his first league MVP and NBA Finals MVP.
Two years later, he led the Bucks back to the Finals, where
