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...most frenzied step-up of all has taken place in basketball. When Joe Lapchick played with the Celtics, the wonder pro team of the '205, scores were sometimes as low as 17-15. He remembers when "we played on slippery floors with basketballs black as charcoal from constant usage. As the season wore on, the ball would swell as seams loosened and baskets became harder to shoot...
...Lapchick, basketball coach at St. John's and alumnus of basketball's legendary Celtics' team, has seen basketball's greats for 34 years. Says he of Fulks, "The greatest offensive player I have ever seen. He is to basketball what Babe Ruth was to baseball." Says Joe Fulks, "They give me the ball and I shoot. That's all there...
...attention was long-necked, jut-elbowed Center Harry ("Big Boy") Boykoff, 6 ft. 9, the tournament's tallest. When the Big Boy took wing up-court, he looked like a heron in full flight. When it came to playing basketball, there was nothing awkward about Coach Lapchick's team-or about the way Boykoff reached above the basket to bat out opponents' certain scores...