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...Wilt Chamberlain, playing with a badly injured right wrist, led the Los Angeles Lakers to their first National Basketball championship last night with a 114-100 victory over the Knicks...
...Success steered him into psychoanalysis and broke up his five-year marriage. Although he walks with the slight stoop of a man concerned with not bumping his head, he seems to like towering over everyone else. On the L.A. party circuit, only the Lakers' Wilt Chamberlain could challenge this distinction. Crichton's tastes run to the sound and costly. He has a Mercedes-Benz sedan to replace a Porsche, which he found too cramping, and recently purchased a house designed by Richard Neutra...
They could, but no one, not even the Knicks, expect the rest of the best-of-seven series to repeat the action of the first game. The Knicks could hardly play any better; the Lakers clearly can and doubtless will. The Lakers' giant center, Wilt Chamberlain, for instance, may never again be as effectively neutralized. Teammate Jerry West, the alltime N.B.A. play-off scoring leader, cannot do anything but improve his sickly opening-game shooting performance of three baskets in 15 attempts. At the very least, the Knicks1 performance in the first game gave promise that the championship series...
Part of the scenario came true. The Lakers and the Bucks did meet, but their series rarely generated the anticipated excitement-not even in the seesawing struggle of the seven-footers, Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. In the vital closing minutes of the decisive sixth game, Chamberlain, 35, took almost humiliating command of 24-year-old Jabbar and led the Lakers to victory...
Selfless. Nowhere has Sharman's shaping been more evident than in the play of Chamberlain, who earns about $250,000 a year as center and has occasionally been accused of being something less than a team player. Not this season. Never in his 13-year pro career has the "Dipper" concentrated so little on shooting (he once scored 100 points for Philadelphia against New York) and ILLUSTRATED so much on rebounding, blocking shots and setting up someone else to score. As an intimidating pivot and selfless team captain. Chamberlain has led the Lakers to their new heights...