Word: backboards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Knicks' last game against Milwaukee, he held the highly touted Lew Alcindor to 17 points. Against Boston recently, Reed drove around 7-ft. Center Rich Niemann to sink a reverse layup; seconds later, he went up twice under the Boston backboard to slam away Jim Barnes' layup attempts. When Reed left the game to a standing ovation, he had 27 points and the Knicks had a 25-point lead they held...
...second half was a succession of scoring skeins, first by Columbia (read "Jim McMillian" or "Heywood Dotson") and then by Harvard. Dover dropped in several lunging layups which caught the backboard at a peculiar angle but then spun into the basket...
...scored 24, with four assists and 23 rebounds. At the very last, his 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...
...Harvard, sophomores Barth Royer and Bob Kanuth played strongly under the offensive backboard, but their efforts weren't enough to offset Johnson...
...N.C.A.A. championship-this year, next year or the year after. The question is how. One coach suggested raising the height of the baskets from 10 ft. to 12 ft.; that proposal was discarded when it was found that Lew can leap up and nearly touch the top of the backboard-13 ft. above the floor. Another coach facetiously plugged for sinking the baskets into the floor like golf cups. "That way," he said, "it should at least take him longer to reach over and stuff the ball in." A third alternative was tested by Southern Cal Coach Bobby Boyd when...