Word: elgin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much more than half a game, but he makes the most of his opportunities. His scoring average is 17 points a game (18th best in the N.B.A., behind 17 starting players), and he hits on 48% of his shots -an accuracy quotient that even the Lakers' great stars, Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, cannot match. "Dick is a great streak shooter," says Coach Schaus, "and that's perfect for a guy who's coming off the bench. It gives us points when we need them most and helps get the team going again." This season Barnett...
Most basketball stars have one great talent: Russell's is defense, Elgin Baylor's is shooting, Bob Cousy's is setting up plays and passing. Chamberlain does almost everything, better than anyone else. He is the pros' fiercest rebounder, and his shooting repertory includes such inimitable specialties as the "Dipper Dunk" (in which he simply stretches up and lays the ball in the basket), the "Stuff Shot" (in which he jumps up and rams the ball through the net from above), and the "Fadeaway Jump"-a delicate, marvelously coordinated push shot from 15 ft. away that...
...from Oxford, Miss., to Cape Canaveral. But people who really care about TV-the ones who habitually watch it-are devoted to the weekly programs that contain the real stuff of television: all the heroes, heavies and broad comedians in the great video frieze that might be called the Elgin plasters. TV fills too much time to be extraordinarily worthwhile in any but a small part of it, and this will never change...
...record: 71 points, set in 1960 by the Lakers' own high-scoring (38.1 points per game) Elgin Baylor...
When finally Elgin summons the courage to invite Caroline out for dinner, and they link arms in walking together, they revert to the safety that a discussion Metaphysical Poetry offers...