Word: laker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After four games in the best-of-seven series, the Celtics led 3-1, and it looked like a typical runaway. But then the Lakers won the next two, and it was a brand-new series. "There isn't a man on this team who doesn't know that we can win," said Laker Coach Fred Schaus, going into the final game at Boston...
...Boston Celtics and the Los Angeles Lakers play it, Dr. Naismith would never recognize his game. Champions and challengers, East and West, old pros and ambitious upstarts, they are basketball's Hatnelds and McCoys. In nine games during the regular season, the Celtics won four, the Lakers five, and each time it was a kneeing, elbow-digging blood feud. The Celtics, perennial champions of the National Basketball Association, jeered at Laker talk that Los Angeles was the "basketball capital of the world." The Lakers called Boston a "bush town." Last week the two teams met again in the playoffs...
...Running is our game," said Laker Coach Fred Schaus, and he told his young team to chase the veteran Celtics (aver age age: 29) off the floor. But if the Celtics were aging, they were graceful about it. Bandy-legged Bob Cousy, 34, the matchless playmaker, whipped sidearm passes the length of the court to launch Boston's fast break. Towering (6 ft. 10 in.) Bill Russell, 29, swept in rebounds like an angry mother plucking her child from the arms of a too-attentive stranger. Sam Jones poured in points-29 the first night, 27 the next...
...Cousy's Hurt!" "We've got 'em now," cheered the Lakers, as 15,521 fans jammed the Los Angeles Sports Arena for Game No. 6-the biggest crowd ever to watch a basketball game in California. But in the first three quarters it was all Boston. Pushing his tired legs to the ultimate limits, Bob Cousy scored 16 points, set up another dozen baskets with his magical passing and led the Celtics to a 12-point lead. Then it happened. "Cousy's hurt!" gasped the crowd. Down on the floor, Cousy writhed in agony, clutching...
...Miss It! Miss It!" That brilliant steal should have taken the heart out of Los Angeles. But no. The teams traded baskets, and then, with 43 sec. left, the Lakers' Dick Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley...