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Word: courtman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every basketball coach, both in the N.B.A. and among the amateurs, is to find the player who combines all the talents required by the modern game: scoring, playmaking, rebounding and defending. In the N.B.A.'s 1961 season, no player comes closer to fulfilling that ideal of the complete courtman than the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar Robertson, 22, a lithe (6 ft. 4½ in.. 200 lbs.) Negro guard who was famed in college, as he is in the N.B.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Graceful Giants | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

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