Word: laker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elgin Baylor and Jerry West paced the Laker victory; Baylor scored 43 points and West finished the game with 32. Baylor made a key basket in the final period which put Los Angeles ahead to stay. The Lakers had trailed the Celtics by five points at the start of the fourth quarter...
Showing their world championship form to 13,909 wildly approving fans, the Boston Celtics jumped to an early lead and held off late Los Angeles Laker rallies last night to defeat L.A. 113-106, giving the Celtics a commanding 2-0 lead in the best of seven National Basketball Association playoff finals...
With the kind of point surge that has become their trademark the Celtics grabbed an 11 point lead in the third period after a see-saw first half. For the rest of the game Boston players took turns dashing Laker hopes of a comeback...
...Barnett's preliminary motion looks awkward: he lurches jerkily into the air and kicks both feet backward. But then he flips the ball toward the basket so lightly that the actual act of shooting is an anticlimax. "It's like a knuckle ball," says Laker General Manager Lou Mohs. "Sometimes it looks as though it's off to one side-but then it starts searching for the net. Style? Barnett doesn't have any. But who's going to mess with that shot?" On his follow-through, Barnett watches the ball wend its wiggly...
...Immediate Lift." Barnett's second-string heroics have inspired a dedicated band of Barnett boosters to get out the paintpots and troop to Laker home games beneath placards proclaiming "Fall back, baby!" Almost from the opening tip-off they noisily inform Coach Schaus that "We want Barnett!" Barnett whole heartedly agrees. "I definitely would like to be a starter," he says. "I think I can play equally well on any basis and that I'd be more effective starting." When Starter West tore a hamstring muscle last month, Barnett got his chance-and the results will make...