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...Boston Celtics are champions and the Los Angeles Lakers runners-up, a feeling yet persists that the Lakers are the better basketball players, while the Celtics' virtues extend beyond the sport's linear boundaries, just out of Magic Johnson's range at 24, no longer within Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's reach...
...tall and angular, he seemed to have been designed originally as a natural monument to defiance, constructed out of high-tension wires, never to be touched. But his mettle must have softened over 15 seasons, or maybe some of the temper has just gone out of him. While Kareem still shoots and passes with grace and guile, he does not get his share of rebounds any more. On the worst basketball teams, the center is expected to do everything. On the best ones, he is required to rebound. If the Laker center was not surrounded by so many willowy teammates...
...this is to be expected at the Harvard summer school, a place of unpredictability, strangeness, extremes...well...Kareem Abdul-Jabbar showed up one summer to study Arabic. It's almost the exact opposite of staid regular-year Harvard, which cruises along tradition-bound and stuffy. Summer School Director Marshall R. Pihl '55 would rather not have us believe this. He wants us to believe in Traditional Harvard. He writes in the introduction...
...Kareem skies past Wilt
...hook," a shot he devised at the age of nine and the height of 5 ft. 8 in. when all of his standard attempts had been blocked, 7-ft. 2-in. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar supplanted 7-ft. 1-in. Wilt Chamberlain last week as the National Basketball Association's most prolific scorer. Over 13 professional years, Chamberlain amassed 31,419 points, up to 100 at a time. Abdul-Jabbar, 36, is in his 15th season and showing no signs of halting. With a typical display of integrity, the Laker pivotman could not restrain himself from scoring 22 points...