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...Cunningham has shaped up the feuding 76ers for the play-offs...
...made sense in a way. Philadelphia 76er Coach Billy Cunningham had just watched his team, the most prodigally gifted in the N.B.A., lose to the league's second worst club, the Houston Rockets, and he needed a lift. Emerging from a disco after a few consoling beers, he got one. A man who claims to hold the world's record for push-ups (9,000 in five hours) offered to demonstrate his prowess. Cunningham gingerly stepped onto his back. Up, down, up, down-two full push-ups with the 212-lb. coach aboard. "Only in the N.B.A.," said...
...Billy Cunningham ought to know. The outfit he will lead into the pro playoffs next week in quest of the league championship was renowned for being as zany and fractious as any in sport when he took over as coach early this season. The best team money could buy (basketball division) featured a $2.2 million payroll and a collection of egos that beggared even that price tag. Forward George McGinnis often behaved as though his feet were chained to the floor when someone else had the ball. Center Darryl Dawkins, 6 ft. 11 in., 251 lbs., was a tempestuous...
...pyrotechnics and ego-invigorating one-on-one duels. The limitations of such tactics were all too evident in the championship series: Philadelphia was whipped by the less-talented but cohesive and unselfish Portland Trail Blazers. When this season began with a 2-4 whimper, Coach Shue was dispatched and Cunningham summoned...
Higginson has assembled a solid rearguard in senior veterans Kevin Cunningham (stroke) and captain John Pickering (seven-seat). The talented pair held down these same slots last year during Harvard's perfect season, and they have never lost a race in their J.V. and varsity careers...