Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exhibition: 14 American Painters (CBS, 4-5 p.m.). A special showing American painters at work in their studios, including Robert Motherwell, James Brooks, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Stuart Davis, Larry Rivers, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg...
...Richard Barnett, 26, is a bony, medium-sized giant whose regular starting position in the Los Angeles Lakers' lineup is a 2-ft.-wide section of white pine planking on the Laker bench. There he sits, impassively watching the action or examining the toes of his size 12½ sneakers, until some Laker starter misses a few easy lay-ups or begins to pant on the way downcourt. Then Coach Fred Schaus yells, "Dick, get in there!" and Barnett unfolds his full 6 ft. 4 in. and trots onto the floor. To serve melodrama properly, he should promptly rattle...
...Fall Back, Baby!" Barnett rarely plays much more than half a game, but he makes the most of his opportunities. His scoring average is 17 points a game (18th best in the N.B.A., behind 17 starting players), and he hits on 48% of his shots -an accuracy quotient that even the Lakers' great stars, Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, cannot match. "Dick is a great streak shooter," says Coach Schaus, "and that's perfect for a guy who's coming off the bench. It gives us points when we need them most and helps get the team...
...parlance, Dick Barnett is a "gunner"-a player whose natural inclination is to let fly whenever he gets his hands on the ball. He cannot battle like Baylor under the backboards, or bulldoze past bigger players for driving lay-ups like West. But he possesses one of the deadliest outside shots in basketball-a delicate, left-handed jump shot that is accurate from anywhere within 25 ft. of the rim. Barnett's preliminary motion looks awkward: he lurches jerkily into the air and kicks both feet backward. But then he flips the ball toward the basket so lightly that...
...Immediate Lift." Barnett's second-string heroics have inspired a dedicated band of Barnett boosters to get out the paintpots and troop to Laker home games beneath placards proclaiming "Fall back, baby!" Almost from the opening tip-off they noisily inform Coach Schaus that "We want Barnett!" Barnett whole heartedly agrees. "I definitely would like to be a starter," he says. "I think I can play equally well on any basis and that I'd be more effective starting." When Starter West tore a hamstring muscle last month, Barnett got his chance-and the results will make...