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...upward stares when he toured the sights of China, but Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 35 and 7 ft. 2 in., was even more the center of attraction on the basketball court. To the members of the Chinese national basketball team, Jabbar and the other visiting U.S. pros must have looked like a Western version of the Great Wall. "They are the world's best," says Chinese Center Han Pengshan, 20, something of a tourist attraction himself at 7 ft. 3 in. "They have springs on their feet...
...fight mobs go, the audience Friday night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...Huskies' size advantage was most evident when they got five or six cracks at the basket, or when their 6-ft, 3-in center (she looked a lot talier) was looping in sky books reminiscent of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Home remarked after the game that it's tough to win a game "when you're giving up four or five inches underneath...
...Celtics did it again yesterday afternoon, limiting the Los Angeles Lakers to a paltry 14 fourth-quarter points to key a 98-96 victory. Kareem Abdul Jabbar scored 32 points and Jamaal Wilkes 29 for the Lakers in a losing effort. But the Celtics remain two games behind Philly in their division, as the Sixers squashed Seattle...
When he came out of Florida State in 1969, basketball afficianados laughed at the idea that this relatively unheralded project of Red Auerbach could bang heads with the Kareem Abdul-Jabbars, Wilt Chamberlains, and Wes Unselds patrolling the keys and live to tell about it. Yet one of the predominant images of pro basketball in the early '70s became that of a grimacing, snarling, Cowens ripping down a rebound as sweat poured down his face and shook off his hair. The league soon respected Cowens, but as much more than that hated athletic stalwart, the all-hustle, no-talent scrapper...