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...college stars. Nonetheless, as the number of pro-basketball teams has grown from nine to 28 in the past nine years, scouts have found that thinking small can reap big rewards. Ask the world champion New York Knickerbockers. No fewer than three of their starting five-Walt Frazier of Southern Illinois, Willis Reed of Grambling and Dick Barnett of Tennessee State-are N.A.l.A. alumni. They all sharpened their skills in the prostyle brand of run-and-shoot that is played in the N.A.l.A...
...would be difficult to exclude Joe Frazier, with the $750,000 he'll have after taxes and with his championship belt, from the winner's circle. Yet, despite the substantiality of these credentials, Joe Frazier did not win the championship of the world. He out-pointed a boxer, even dropped him for a four-count in the fifteenth, and walked out of the ring with a sense of personal satisfaction from his highly personal victory. But as for the championship of the world, Frazier never had a chance. Bundini Brown, Ali's assistant trainer and confidant, has said, "The world...
...LOST," but who beat him? Joe Frazier? Not to the world outside of the buttons, not even to many people on them. As they see it, Muhammad Ali was no more beaten by Frazier than Jack Johnson was beaten by Jeff Willard. What beat Johnson was the Mann Act (which was made retroactive to obtain his conviction) and the continuous psychological and economic war of attrition waged against him by the white world. The only difference in Ali's case is a refinement of technique...
...LOST!" Goliath, Jack Johnson, Ali... the independent villain controlled at last. Ali was aware of this line of progression long before the fight with Frazier. Consciously, by adopting Johnson maneuvers like the "anchor" punch-the punch Ali used to knock out Liston in the Lewiston, Maine fight-and by creating devices of his own-the Ali Shuffle during the fight and the poetry before it-Ali has done much to revive John-it-Ali has done much to revive Johnson (could anyone imagine The Great White Hope as anything more than a cruel joke during Floyd Patterson's reign...
...there is a tragedy in this "Fight of Champions," Joe Frazier is the Othello and the takers, that vast locust combine, play Iago. The prefight publicity has made it impossible for Frazier ever to be champ to black America and the rest of the world. Rather than revealing him as another black man of different convictions from Ali, the PR portrayed him as a vacuous white hope in blackface...