Adidas Honors Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 'The Blueprint' Crazy 8 Shoe

Adidas is honoring the legacy of former UCLA star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with a pair of shoes, and the Bruins will be sporting them on the court soon. After interviewing some NBA players, Adidas came up with the perfect name for the shoes: "The Blueprint." When asked what Abdul-Jabbar meant to them, one player responded by calling him "the blueprint to greatness as a person, an athlete and as a philanthropist." The legend, known as Lew Alcindor until May of 1971, played for UCLA from 1966-69, winn...