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...Buffalo managed an eight-point lead, the biggest of the game, late in the first period as Randy Smith scored eight points. But the Celtics trimmed it to three points, 51-48, at the half...
Veterans Dave Cowens, John Havlicek and Jo Jo White scored 13 of Boston's 15 points in the last five minutes last night to lift the Celtics to a 100-97 victory over the Buffalo Braves and take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven National Basketball Association playoff series...
...teams in each of the four N.B.A. divisions. Instead, only divisional winners automatically qualify; a third-place team like the Pistons (behind Milwaukee and Chicago in the Midwest) can beat out a second-place team in the Pacific division if the third-place finisher has the better record. Buffalo, trailing Boston and New York in the Atlantic division, displaced second-ranking Atlanta in the Central division...
...Braves, of course, did not acquire all this talent by accident. General Manager Eddie Donovan is one of the shrewdest traders and drafters in pro basketball. Before corning to Buffalo. Donovan built the Knicks into a championship team by drafting the likes of Bill Bradley, Walt Frazier and Willis Reed, and trading for Dave De Busschere and Dick Barnett. In Buffalo. Donovan found in Owner Paul Snyder a man who was eager to underwrite similar maneuvering with a philosophy that "good players deserve high salaries...
...first round of the playoffs, the Braves will face the best running team in basketball, the Boston Celtics. Until last month, Buffalo had lost 22 straight games to Boston. But that was before the pivotal trade for Marin and Goukas. Since then the Braves have defeated the Celtics two out of three times, taken two of three from New York, and stunned Milwaukee 145-109. "We can play anybody," boasts the bullish Ramsay, "and beat anybody." Besides, if the Braves fail this year, there is no telling whom Eddie Donovan will add to the lineup next fall...