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...Forward Sam Jones, who has been averaging 25 points a game, the Celtics do not have a man among the top 15 scorers in the National Basketball Association. Center Russell, four times the league's Most Valuable Player, has been complaining of a mysterious stomach ailment. Forward Tommy Heinsohn, the team's top pointmaker for three out of the last five years, has missed 14 games with a torn ligament and a blood clot in his foot. And Guard John Havlicek has water on the knee...
With 19 seconds left in the game. Boston led by only two points 101-99. Trying for the clincher. Forward Heinsohn fired and missed. Everybody converged on the basket, clawing for the rebound. Chamberlain reached up, but Russell got there first. "Flailing like a wheat thresher, he bounded high into the air, plucked the loose ball off the backboard and, all in the same motion, rammed it through the basket-"all the way up to my elbows." he said later...
...drafted by the Cleveland Browns), boasts the most efficient elbows in the league. Guard K. C. Jones may not yet be in Cousy's class as a playmaker, but says one insider: "All he needs is a little more time on the job." Sam Jones and Tommy Heinsohn are "gunners"; on any other team they might average 30 points a game. But in Boston they have to share the wealth: hardly a game goes by without half a dozen Celtics scoring in double figures. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Center Bill Russell is a moody defensive genius who takes...
...lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley had the rebound. Then a groan. Again, Tommy Heinsohn stole the ball, went up to shoot and was fouled by Wiley. Los Angeles fans chanted "Miss it! Miss it!" Heinsohn's hawklike face was expressionless. Swish! One point. Swish! Another. Score: Boston 110, Los Angeles 107. The clock now read 22 sec. The final score was academic: Boston...
...screamed Heinsohn when he reached the dressing room. "Let's have a party! Where's the champagne? Where's the jazz?" In a corner an exhausted Bob Cousy sprawled on a bench, holding court for reporters. In 13 seasons, the onetime Holy Cross ace had scored 18,973 points, added 7,786 assists, and proved that in a day of human skyscrapers a small (6 ft. i in.), agile and brainy player could become one of the greatest stars the game has ever known. Quitting now, to coach basketball at Boston College, he was going off still...