Word: 76er
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bill Russell, Cousy's Boston teammate, whose presence had the most to do with the Celtics' eleven National Basketball Association championships in 13 years. By basketball's nature, it is fundamentally a pivotman's game, the expected province of the Los Angeles Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Philadelphia 76er Moses Malone, but Forward Bird forwardly deposed Malone as the league's MVP last season after placing second three straight years. Another incongruity, a slightly troubling one, has to do with the fact that nine black men and Bird started the last All-Star game. Granting it is unseemly...
Equally important, 76er management traded away two of the team's bigger ball hogs, George McGinnis and Lloyd Free, then moved 7-ft. Center Caldwell Jones to forward to ease Erving's rebounding burden. Freed at last to work his moves on the outside and levitate past foot-tangled defenders, Erving became the Dr. J of old. After he scored a career-high 44 points against Houston, Rockets Coach Del Harris said: "You couldn't have stopped him with a hockey stick. We had a whole committee of people on him, and they couldn't begin...
...frantic fourth quarter rally by the Celtics fell short last night in Philadelphia as the 76er defeated Boston 99-97. Julius Erving led the effort with 28 points as the 76ers take a 2-1 lead in the National Basketball playoff semi-final series...