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...Atlanta Hawks hardly knew what hit them. With less than a minute remaining, they were trailing the Los Angeles Lakers by only one point, 96 to 95. Then two dunk shots, three intercepted passes, eight points and 31 sec. later, the Lakers walked off the court with a 104-95 victory. The Hawks need not have felt victimized. All season long Los Angeles has been terrorizing the entire National Basketball Association with the Laker lunge, a strong finishing kick that leaves opponents panting and fans chanting for more. The win over the Hawks, in fact, gave the Lakers 21 victories...
...only time the Crimson had the psychological advantage was before the tip-off. Dartmouth has violated the no-dunk rule in its pre-game warm-ups, and the Crimson's Jim Fitzsimmons made the technical and Floyd Lewis tallied the ensuing jumpshot...
...They used to dunk the cases of beer in Sheepshead Bay to prove it was fresh off the boat," said...
Youngsters roll on the ground, tussling, teasing each other and gleefully aping their elders. They climb the tropical trees with abandon and plunge happily into cooling water-holding their noses when they dunk. Despite the similarities, the equatorial playground, at the edge of a 12,000-acre forest preserve on Borneo is no boys' camp. It is the Malaysian state of Sabah's experimental center for the rehabilitation of orangutans...
When Wilt Chamberlain was with the San Francisco Warriors, local sportswriters tended to regard him as an oversized goon who could dunk the ball but rated zero on team play. WILT SCORES 50, WARRIORS LOSE, the headlines often read. The crowds were down on him, too. "I can't love a 7-ft. 1-in. loser," said a fan at the time. So two years ago, San Francisco gladly traded Wilt to the Philadelphia 76ers. Last year the Warriors fired Wilt's coach, Alex Hannum, after a front-office squabble, and he also wound up in Philadelphia. Good...