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...Philadelphia 76ers are paying 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain $250,000 to play professional basketball this winter, and nobody can say that he hasn't gone all out to earn this record sum. Wilt, for instance, thought up a new basketball strategy called reductio ad absurdum. In seven seasons with the San Francisco Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers, Chamberlain averaged 39.6 points a game, and even got as high as 100 points in one game-yet his teams never won a championship. Last year, he was persuaded to shoot less and enjoy it more as a playmaker and rebound...
...strategy would have been all right if the 76ers were running away from the league as they did last year, but they are not. They already have lost nine games, or two-thirds the number they lost all last season. Coach Alex Hannum finally told Chamberlain to be a little piggy out there, take himself a shot now and then. Wilt's response was to pump in 52 points against the Seattle Supersonics. He hit for 34 against the Chicago Bulls, 29 against the Cincinnati Royals, and the 76ers suddenly began to show some of the old spirit. Rattling...
...posture as all-round team player, gigantic Bounceballer Wilt Chamberlain, 31, no longer scores more points than all the rest of the Philadelphia 76ers put together. He out-salaries the whole bunch of them, though. Fresh off his success in leading the 76ers to the National Basketball Association title last season-his first team championship in eight years in the league-Chamberlain held out until eight days before the season began, finally accepted a $50,000 pay boost, to $250,000-wages about double those of any other regularly employed U.S. athlete and slightly higher than those paid the erstwhile...
Divorced. Alex Hannum, 43, coach of pro basketball's Philadelphia 76ers, who last month drove the team to its first championship in twelve years; by Dorothy Hannum, 42, on uncontested charges of cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...defensive play was the difference. Behind by only a point with 15 seconds to go, the Warriors still might have won if Barry had been able to see anything but Wilt looming between him and the backboard. Barry's hopeless shot sailed far off target, and the 76ers picked up another two points on a foul. Final score: Philadelphia 125, San Francisco 122, thus giving the 76ers their first championship and ending Wilt's eight-year frustration over the fact that he had never been on a title-winning team...