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When the young McLaughlin was not playing for St. Barnabas grammar school, he was spending summer vacation at Jack Donohue's basketball camp in Saugertes, N.Y. One of the other precocious basketball prodigies enrolled at the camp was Lew Alcindor, now known as Kareem Abdul Jabbar, whom Donohue later coached at Power Memorial...
...senior years at Fordham, the Rams were invited to the post-season NIT tournament, the showcase of New York basketball. Even before his collegiate days he met Willis Reed, Bobby Knight, Kevin Loughery, and New York Knicks general manager Eddie Donovan at Donohue's summer clinic, not to mention Jabbar...
Actress June Gable climbed the ladder, drew herself up to her full 5 ft. and zinged a one-liner at 7-ft. 2-in. Los Angeles Laker Star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "Want to see my touchdown?" As it happened, the script of NBC-TV's Laugh-In revival called for "Want to see my sky hook?" But nobody called personal foul. Gable's gaffe is now part of the Sept. 12 show. Kareem, too, scores his share of points as a guest artist on the first of six monthly specials. When a crew member started chatting about antique...
...doubts that Walton was back in form were dispelled during the Laker series, when he entered into and ultimately won a classic duel with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar-a struggle of titans unparalleled in the N.B.A. since Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell met head on a decade ago. Abdul-Jabbar dominated most of the statistics, but Walton's inspired play at key moments left the Lakers and Abdul-Jabbar helpless...
...dunker nonpareil. James Hardy has shredded the strings so often for San Francisco that Dr. J. comparisons follow him like autograph hounds. His teammate 7-ft. Bill Cartwright has a soft shooting touch and an altitudinous, B-52 dunk that conjures up memories of U.C.L.A.'S Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the man whose size and skills were largely responsible for instituting the anti-dunk rule in the first place. But size is not quintessential. Alabama's Kent Looney, a 5-ft. 9-in., 141-lb. guard, went over a 7-ft. opponent to stuff a rebound. The country...