Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss It! Miss It!" That brilliant steal should have taken the heart out of Los Angeles. But no. The teams traded baskets, and then, with 43 sec. left, the Lakers' Dick Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley...
...opening seconds of the last quarter, Cousy suffered an ankle injury, and members of the Boston press were getting their "They won it for Cooz" stories ready for the morning papers. Four minutes later the Celtics were holding on for their lives, after Elgin Baylor, Dick Barnett, and Jerry West had sparked LA and narrowed the score...
With 43 seconds on the clock Barnett contributed a three-point play which again reduced the Celtics margin to one point. Boston ate up time; Cousy took a jump shot from outside the key which hit the rim and bounced high into the air. LA got the crucial rebound--and lost it. Tom Heinsohn was fouled in the scuffle under the boards, and calmly sank a pair of foul shots which kept the NBA crown in its eternal home...
With two minutes remaining Jerry West and Dick Barnett combined to bring the challengers to within four points of Boston, but the Celtics' troubleshooter, Frank Ramsey, tossed in five of seven straight Celtics points to put the game finally out of reach of the Lakers...
...popularity of Gov. Barnett among the students last fall (and, incidentally, the vast majority of his supporters among the student body were freshmen), was more a protest against the Kennedy Administration that support for Barnett. And this popularity has been waning rapidly in recent months, especially since the Governor has failed to specifically deny Look Magazine's allegations that throughout the week before Meredith's admission Barnett was negotiating with Robert Kennedy, to whom he wasn't exactly saying the same things he was to the people of Mississippi...