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Praise for the decision came from many former and present teammates. "I don't think you could have picked a better man. He knows how to handle kids and he really has the art of communication with ballplayers," Celtic teammate Hank Finkel said last night. "I'd sure like to have him back with the Celtics next year...
Though a newcomer to the pros, New York Knick Guard Dean Meminger has a veteran's grasp of what the annual free-for-all called the National Basketball Association play-offs is all about. He proved it in last week's showdown game with the Boston Celtics, when a flash fight between Knick Bill Bradley and Celtic Don Nelson threatened to erupt into a bench-clearing slugfest. Meminger, the smallest man on the floor, quickly stepped in front of Boston's Dave Cowens, the 6-ft. 9-in. center with flaming red hair and a temper...
...than the usual amount of erratic behavior. The Los Angeles Lakers, listless and barely able to survive their first-round clash with the bruising Chicago Bulls, came roaring back to polish off the Golden State Warriors in five games. The Knicks, helped by an injury that all but immobilized Celtic Star John Havlicek, ran up a commanding lead of three games to one, then lost two in a row. With that the Celtics did something they had never done before in ten previous play-off series that went to the seventh and deciding game: they lost. In the end, those...
Watson met with Boston Celtic forward Tom (Satch) Sanders yesterday about the possibility of the 13-year NBA veteran taking the Harvard...
...Knicks third-quarter rally based on the non-shooting and careless passing of Celtic starters clinched the win for New York...