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Philadelphia crushed Boston's hopes for its tenth straight Eastern division title National Basketball Association play today with a 108-104 win over Baltimore. The Celtics meanwhile beat Cincinnati 121-104 but stayed a game behind the 76ers as the season closed...
...76ers trailed at half-time in their game against Baltimore, but outscored the Bullets 38-16 in the third period behind Wilt Chamberlain and Hal Greer. At one point Philadelphia, behind 72-56, scored an incredible 24 points in a row to go ahead 80-71. Chamberlain and Greer each wound up with 24 points for the game...
Boston beats Cincinnati in that three of five series, it will have another shot at the 76ers in the four out of seven Eastern division playoff finals. The winner of that series will take on the Western Division playoff champion to decide the NBA title...
Chamberlain, most valuable player of the season in the N.B.A., shouted during the victory celebration in the '76ers dressing room, "I want the big title. This is just a down payment on the big one." Commenting on the game. Wilt said, "I don't think of the win personally. All it does it put about $3000 in my rocket...
...This means more to me than anything," Wilt said afterward. Anything, that is, except winning-which the Philadelphia 76ers did, 149 to 123, and which they have been doing all season with such regularity that last week they trailed the World Champion Boston Celtics by only i game. With Wilt averaging 34.6 points and 24 rebounds a game, getting plenty of help from the likes of Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Bill Cunningham, Chamberlain may yet have the ultimate reply for his critics: an N.B.A. championship...