In 1970-71 Milwaukee added Oscar Robertson, went 66–16 and swept Baltimore in the Finals. Lew Alcindor was the Most Valuable Player of the season and of the Finals. In 1971 he also began using in public the name he had taken years earlier with his conversion to Islam: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Topps did not catch up for another year. Its 1971-72 set, 233 cards with the ABA included for the first time, still calls him LEW ALCINDOR, on #100 and on his four leaders cards.
He had the title, the MVP and a new name. The card still says Lew Alcindor.
It was also the year Topps went back to the standard 2 1/2 by 3 1/2 inches. Number 100 shows him cut out against a solid red box in the white Bucks uniform, number 33, a ball in his hands, with MILWAUKEE in tall yellow letters across the top and LEW ALCINDOR, BUCKS' CENTER below.
He won the MVP award again that season, under his new name, while this card carried the old one.
It is his last base card as Alcindor. The next year's #100 is the first as Kareem.
