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Tomorrow afternoon in the Milwaukee Arena, the Boston Celtics begin battle to capture their 12th National Basketball Association championship. In this quest, one insurmountable object towers in their way: seven-foot three-inch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...
Since the departure of ex-Celtic Bill Russell from basketball, no one player has dominated the game as has Jabbar. This past season, he led the league in field goal percentage, earned MVP honors and placed on both All-NBA and All-Defensive-NBA first teams...
After watching Jabbar average better than 36 points per game and leading the Bucks to a four-game devastation of the Chicago Bulls in the finals of the Western Conference playoffs, Bill Russell turned against his former teammates and predicted that the Bucks would win the championship...
...think Jabbar is the best center that I have ever seen play the game," Russell said, later adding that he had never watched himself play...
Undoubtedly, the Celtics would like to run against the Bucks, especially since Bucks's guard Lucius Allen remains sidelined with a broken ankle and Milwaukee has to go with aging Oscar Robertson and Jon McGlocklin in the backcourt. But if Jabbar continues to pour in over 35 points per game and controls the boards at both ends of the court as he did against the Bulls, the Celtics' fast break will crumble...