The 1971–72 Milwaukee Bucks season was the fourth season in franchise history.
 Led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Bucks finished in first place in the Midwest Division.
 Abdul-Jabbar won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award ahead of Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.; April 16, 1947) is an American retired professional basketball player who played 20 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and the Los Angeles Lakers.
 During his career as a center, Abdul-Jabbar was a record six-time NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), a record 19-time NBA All-Star, a 15-time All-NBA selection, and an 11-time NBA All-Defensive Team member.
 A member of six NBA championship teams as a player and two as an assistant coach, Abdul-Jabbar twice was voted NBA Finals MVP.
 In 1996, he was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History.
 NBA coach Pat Riley and players Isiah Thomas and Julius Erving have called him the greatest basketball player of all time.
The 1983–84 season for the Los Angeles Lakers saw them lose in the 1984 NBA Finals against Larry Bird's Boston Celtics in seven well-fought games.
 The Los Angeles Lakers, powered by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who broke the NBA's all-time total points record) and Magic Johnson with his 13.1 assists per game (tops in '84), ended up winning 54 games in the 1983–84 NBA season.
 On April 5, 1984, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a 12-foot shot over Mark Eaton of the Utah Jazz 1 to surpass Wilt Chamberlain as the NBA's all-time leading scorer with 31,421 points.
The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate center.
 Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Jerry West Award, Julius Erving Award and Karl Malone Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.
 It is named after three-time NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champion, three-time NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player, and three-time National Player of the Year Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
 The inaugural winner was Frank Kaminsky.
The 1973 Hanafi Muslim massacre took place on the afternoon of January 18, 1973.
 Two adults and a child were shot to death, 4 other children were drowned whose ages ranged from 9 days to 10 years old.
 Two others were severely injured.
 The murder took place at a Washington D.C. house purchased for a group of Hanafi Muslims to use as the Hanafi American Mussulman's Rifle and Pistol Club.
 The property was purchased and donated by then Milwaukee Bucks basketball player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The 2017–18 Milwaukee Bucks season will be the 50th season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 On June 16, 2017, the Bucks named Jon Horst as their new general manager.
 It will be the Bucks' final season at Bradley Center, with their move to the new Wisconsin Entertainment and Sports Center for the 2018–19 NBA season.
Brian Joseph Winters (born March 1, 1952) is an American former basketball player and coach.
 He attended academic and athletic powerhouse Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York, graduating in 1970.
 He then played collegiately with the University of South Carolina and was the 12th pick in the 1974 NBA Draft, taken by the Los Angeles Lakers.
 He made the NBA All-Rookie Team with the Lakers, and was then traded to the Milwaukee Bucks as part of the trade that brought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Lakers.
 He had a productive nine-year career that included two appearances in the NBA All-Star Game and playing on six playoffs teams.
 Winters averaged 16.2 points and 4.1 assists over his career, with his best years coming from 1975 to 1979 when he averaged over 19 points and slightly less than 5 assists per game.
 His number 32 was retired by the Bucks.
The 1969–70 Milwaukee Bucks season was the second season for the Milwaukee Bucks.
 Led by the heralded rookie center Lew Alcindor, they finished with a 56–26 record, enough for second place in the Eastern Division.
 After beating the Philadelphia 76ers 4–1 in the Eastern semifinals, they lost to the eventual champions New York Knicks in five games.
The National Basketball Association Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1955–56 season to the best performing player of the regular season.
 The winner receives the Maurice Podoloff Trophy, which is named in honor of the first commissioner (then president) of the NBA, who served from 1946 until 1963.
 Until the , the MVP was selected by a vote of NBA players.
 Since the , the award is decided by a panel of sportswriters and broadcasters throughout the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first to fifth place selections.
 Each first-place vote is worth 10 points; each second-place vote is worth seven; each third-place vote is worth five, fourth-place is worth three and fifth-place is worth one.
 Starting from 2010, one ballot was cast by fans through online voting.
 The player with the highest point total wins the award.
 s of June 2017 , the current holder of the award is Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The 1970–71 Milwaukee Bucks season was the third season for the Bucks.
 Milwaukee posted a 66–16 record in only its third year of existence, and its second since getting Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then named Lew Alcindor.
 Key part of the championship season was the acquisition of Oscar Robertson.
 Other role players on the Bucks included players such as Bob Dandridge (18.4 ppg) and Jon McGlocklin (15.8 ppg), power forward Greg Smith and key reserves Lucius Allen, Bob Boozer and Dick Cunningham completing the nucleus.
 The season included a 20-game winning streak, the NBA's longest at the time, and still ranked fifth all-time.

Question: The 1971–72 Milwaukee Bucks season was led by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar who won what award that is named in honor of the first commissioner (then president) of the NBA, who served from 1946 until 1963?
Answer: NBA Most Valuable Player Award