Word: basketfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professional basketball this season is dominated by a rookie: Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, center for the Philadelphia Warriors-the agile Negro giant (7 ft. 2 in., 250 lbs.) who can nearly reach the basket by raising an arm. Last week Chamberlain was well on his way to smashing every record on the books. Even with 14 games still to play, he had scored more points and snared more rebounds than any other player ever had in a full season. Against the Detroit Pistons he scored 41 points to raise his total to 2,134, break by 29 the season record...
...point game average that has hoisted the Warriors from the cellar of the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division in 1959 to a strong second place this year. For most of the season. Chamberlain's favorite maneuver in the pivot has been to step away from the basket, turn and jump for a righthanded, banked shot. Essentially, this is the shot a short man might take to overcome the height of his opponent, has the serious disadvantage of moving Chamberlain away from the rebound. Now Chamberlain is beginning to exploit his size and strength by bulling straight for the hoop...
...Braun launched a routine pass at a forward, Rodgers darted out of nowhere, got his hands on the ball, and the Warriors' blis tering fast break was on. Dribbling faster than most Knicks could run, Rodgers had the defenders scrambling in on him as he drove for the basket and faked a shot. But, in midair, he flipped a pass behind his back to Teammate Tom Gola, who was so wide open that he merely stuffed down the basket. Minutes later, Rodgers scooped up a free ball with the smooth motion of a shortstop, fed a precise pass...
...will toss an old-fashioned two-handed set that soars so high it is dubbed "the rainmaker"; if crowded, he will knock anyone into the seats who gets in his way as he drives for the layup. His trademark: a right fist brandished in the air after a basket...
...trouble today," says San Francisco's Hoover, "because for the last 20 years we have been putting our transportation eggs into one basket - the development of facilities for the private automobile to the virtual exclusion of every other form of transportation." The answer to the problem, most experts agree, is neither to outlaw the auto mobile in cities, nor abandon the commuter to his fate, nor adopt such oft-suggested schemes as the monorail or the far-fetched "pneumatic tube for people." What the nation's big cities need, if they are not to become monstrous masses...