Word: best-of-seven
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...With the exception of 1958, when Russell was nursing an injury, the Celtics have won the championship every year since. Last week they were just one victory away from their eighth straight, after beating the Los Angeles Lakers 122-117 to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven play-off finals. Russell scored 25 points, pulled down 18 rebounds-and, as usual, played the full 48 minutes. "If a sorcerer told me, 'I'll break your arm and your team will win the championship,' " he has said, "I'd be walking around right...
...cornerman, Havlicek has often been called "the best sixth man in basketball." His greatest value has been his ability to come in cold from the bench and salt away a game with a dozen quick points. He finally broke into the starting lineup against the Cincinnati Royals, with the Celtics trailing two games to one in the best-of-five semifinal playoffs. In the next two games he scored 41 points and sparked Boston to victory. Against Philadelphia in the finals, he scored 127 points, as Boston won the best-of-seven series four games to one. Chamberlain...
...Basketball Association playoffs, clinching their seventh straight world championship. Even though Captain Bill Russell was down to one eye-the other was badly bloodied by an opponent's finger-the Celtics outscored the Lakers 20-0 in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter to win the best-of-seven series, four games...
...master tactician Bus Mosbacher. Now it is Britain's turn again, and the Royal Thames Yacht Club means to make a sterner test of it. Off Newport, R.I., this summer, two new British twelves will fight it out for the right to challenge the U.S. in the best-of-seven series. They are Sovereign, owned by London Financier Anthony Boy den, 36, and Kurrewa V (pronounced Coo-roo-aa),* jointly financed by British and Australian money and skippered by British Yachtsman Owen Parker...
...Boston Celtics: their eighth straight National Basketball Association Eastern Division title, beating the Cincinnati Royals 109-95 in the deciding game at Boston. The Royals, who won seven out of twelve regular-season games from the Celtics, managed only one victory in the best-of-seven playoff...