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...Boston Celtics and Bird and the Philadelphia 76ers and Dr. J are flying in each other's faces in the playoffs again, and that is the best sport this game offers. "Best" is an easily said word, but then basketball is a simply played game. To Oscar Robertson, it was always as elementary as subtraction: give Oscar an 18-footer and he wanted a 15-footer; give him a 15-footer and he wanted a twelve-footer. Many basketball people have long considered Robertson the best ever, but one has lately reconsidered...
Sharpshooting Andrew Toney tallied a playoff career-high 39 points to lead the 76ers as host Philadelphia pounded Boston, 119-94, to take a 3-1 lead yesterday in their best-of-seven National Basketball Association Eastern Conference Championship...
Wednesday night I pulled up my chair in the Union with my bag of popcorn in hand and prepared to watch the Celtics take a 2-0 lead in their series with the 76ers I was the picture of confidence, the idea of a Celtics' loss never crossed my mind...
...76ers have a nine-point lead with only a minute and a half left in the game...
Neither team led by more than two points from the 11:18 mark of the third quarter until the 76ers scored six consecutive points for an insurmountable 119-111 margin with 22 seconds remaining...