Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. in 1947, and this profile traces his rise from a New York high school team that won 71 straight games to three consecutive national championships at UCLA. Archival game footage carries him into the NBA, where he plays fourteen seasons split between the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers, wins six championships, and takes NBA Finals MVP honors twice. The film lays out the numbers that made him the league's all-time leading scorer at retirement, along with games played, minutes played, and blocked shots records, plus six regular-season MVP awards and nineteen All-Star selections. Commentary and highlights return repeatedly to the skyhook, the shot that defined his offense for two decades and proved nearly impossible to block. The film also notes his 1996 selection as one of the NBA's 50 Greatest Players and the case, made by figures like Pat Riley and Isiah Thomas, that he belongs in any argument about the greatest player the game has produced.