Word: billye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Cunningham was a former 76er star-his career was cut short two years ago by a knee injury-his qualifications as a coach were unimpressive. "I never coached a day in my life," he says. "But basketball goes through cycles. When I came in, they were looking for college...
The 76ers also responded to the fact that Cunningham coaches with the same intensity that marked his brilliant playing career (in eleven years with the pros he averaged 20.8 points a game). He rants so fervently on the sidelines that he is frequently rapped with technical fouls. In one recent...
To win the N.B.A. championship, the 76ers will have to play with all the verve, unselfishness-and Philadelphia brotherly love-that Billy Cunningham has been trying to instill in his supersensitive superstars since becoming coach. His bully boys could be unbeatable. Says Dr. J, who is not known for hyperbole...
Steve Baloff, the lanky Californian with the oh-so-nasty slider, won his first game up North and raised his overall record to 3-0 with a strong four-hit, eight-strikeout outing in six and two-thirds innings. Lefty Billy Bradshaw came on in the seventh to hurl the...
Worse than violence, though, was the injury list. Co-captain Bobby Mellen may not be available for the Cornell donnybrook, thanks to the mauling of his shoulder received at the hands of a Bruin laxman. Attackman Billy Forbush and midfielder Terry Trusty also took their licks at Providence, while stellar...