Word: knicks
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...practical purposes, the outcome was decided two weeks ago in the second round, when the charged-up Bullets, led by Guard Earl ("the Pearl") Monroe and Center Wes Unseld, upset the New York Knicks in seven hard-fought games. The defense-minded Knicks, who had beaten the Bucks four out of five games during the regular season, seemed to be the team with the best chance of taking Milwaukee. But with Knick Center Willis Reed hobbled by injuries, the Bullets managed to win that round-although just barely. Going against the Bucks, a team that had defeated them four...
This week, when the Bucks move into the first round of the N.B.A. playoffs, the only question is whether they can stay together once the pressure hits. And hit it will, especially if they meet the Knicks in the finals. Although the New Yorkers have less rebounding and scoring strength, they have a deeper and more versatile bench-and, like the old Boston Celtics, a relentless, almost mystical way of winning the big ones. If the Bucks can finally shake the Knick bugaboo, Coach Costello will have enough reporters and TV cameras around to fill any locker room...
...league. In his last four games he has averaged 15 points while bedeviling his taller rivals with his darting speed and an incredible spring that, says Teammate Elvin Hayes, "allows him to play on a 6-ft. 4-in. level." Against the champion New York Knicks last week Murphy scored seven points in the final minutes and tied the game seconds before the buzzer. In the overtime, he added six more crucial points before the Knicks eked out a 117-113 win. Murphy ended the evening with 23 points (his .625 shooting average topped all the Knick scorers), four assists...
Walt Frazier of the New York Knickerbockers basketball team has a different problem: convincing people that he was wearing those broad-brimmed gangster hats and wide-lapel pin-stripe suits long before the movie Bonnie and Clyde came out. Chief ball hawk for the champion Knicks, Frazier says: "I dress kind of conservatively when we lose and I splash on the colors when we win." Since the Knicks are again runaway leaders, he is usually somewhere over the rainbow. He squires his girl friend around the discotheque circuit in his "Clydemobile," a white-and-canary Cadillac Eldorado that...
...Reed was led limping off the court, Knick Coach Red Holzman was seized by a desire "to go to the movies." If he had, he would have missed one of the most remarkable rallies in N.B.A. history. With Reed gone, Chamberlain dominated the pivot and led the Lakers to a commanding 53-40 lead at half time. In the second half, the Knicks started three forwards and two guards and shifted to what they call their "inspirational defense." One part heart and three parts hustle, the pressing defense drove the Lakers-and 19,500 wildly cheering fans in Madison Square...