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...walloped 4-1 in the best-of-seven play-offs by the same Celtics-who went on to win their ninth N.B.A. championship in ten years. Schayes blamed the debacle on "players who were saying things behind my back"-particularly 7-ft. 1 1/16-in. Center Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, whose sullen disdain for Schayes flared into open, noisy rebellion. Schayes's inability to handle Chamberlain finally cost him his job, and Hannum, who had coached Wilt for two years when he played for the San Francisco Warriors, came on to see what he could do about taming the temperamental...
...Chamberlain showed up seven days late at the 76ers' pre-season training camp last fall. Hannum fined him $1,050 ($150 a day) and invited Chamberlain into a private room for a little nose-to-chin-whiskers chat. Announced Chamberlain: "Hannum is a helluva coach. I don't always agree with what he says...
Rebound & Decoy. Thanks to Hannum, Chamberlain has finally demonstrated that he can do a lot more than just stuff a ball into a basket. With an average of only 24 points per game so far this season, Wilt has virtually eliminated himself from competition for the scoring title he has won every year since he came into the league in 1959. Instead, he concentrates on controlling the boards, decoying enemy defenders, setting up teammates for open shots. The result: Wilt ranks No. 3 in the league in assists (with 307) as well as No. 1 in rebounds (with...
...Chamberlain seems perfectly content with his new role as the self-effacing team player-particularly since it may at last bring him the one thrill he has missed so far: playing on a championship team. Of course, that will probably require beating the Celtics in the playoffs, and Wilt knows how tough a job that is. "The Celtics are better than us at every position but one," he says. "You can guess what that position...
...else-and an unbelievably clubbable lot they were. Nicolson casually notes, for example, that he popped in on Anthony Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends. When Chamberlain announced that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted, "Raymond [Mortimer] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this ghastly?' Eddy...