Word: laker
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...there's hope for all those teams that have suffered through the "Little Red Riding Hood" syndrome in the 1980s after last year's breakthrough, when the Detroit Pistons swept through the playoffs and took the Lakers in four games for the NBA Championship. Finally, the NBA trophy wasn't bathed in Celtic green or Laker gold...
Doug Moe, the flamboyant coach of the Denver Nuggets, got to thinking a few weeks ago that pro basketball shouldn't let Kareem Abdul-Jabbar slip into retirement without somebody standing up and saying what a "jerk" the Laker center had been "his whole life." Abdul-Jabbar let it go, but the obvious rejoinder, if he remembered the headlines of 1961, was to say at least he never accepted carfare from a fixer for listening to the pitch. That was Moe's only confessed involvement in a point-shaving mess at the University of North Carolina, but it was enough...
Ciavaglia started his scoring streak at the halfway mark of the first period when he picked up a pass in the neutral zone and skated in alone on Laker goalie Bruce Hoffort. Hoffort, a first-team All-America and a Hobey Baker finalist, found himself caught with the side of the net wide open...
Told that The Crimson forecasts a close game against a strong Laker team, Bok went on the record with his own prediction...
Riding the great Laker wave of back-to-back NBA titles in 1987 and 1988, his fifth and sixth all told, Kareem returned this season for one last $3 million campaign at 41. But from November to January, he looked so soft and spent, the Los Angeles papers pleaded with him to stop. It seemed he was going around again just for the money (a stream of failed investments has him at public loggerheads with his agent) or maybe for the curtain calls at all the final stops (testimonials have included a motorcycle in Milwaukee and a chunk of Boston...