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Word: layup (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first major acquisition was Maxwell, a former University of North Carolina-Charlotte standout. Spindly at 6 ft. 8 in., 217 lbs., Maxwell looks awkward walking across a room, but displays a spidery grace leaping for rebounds or twisting over the outstretched arms of defenders as he soars for a layup. Last year he was joined at forward by Larry Bird, the Indiana State star who was a first-round draft choice as a junior and signed as a senior for a reported $650,000 a year. That acquisition gave the Celtics the N.B.A.'s best pair of forwards, unselfish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: What's Green and Goes Swish? | 5/25/1981 | See Source »

Larry Bird began the first-quarter streak that put the Celts in control with a 12-ft. jumper, followed by a spinning Maxwell layup. Malone hit a freethrow, and Chris Ford fastbreaked a layup. And after that--Parish...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Celts Overrun Rockets 109-80; Playoffs May End Tomorrow | 5/13/1981 | See Source »

...senior co-captain drove smoothly up the lane, dumping in a beautiful layup, getting fouled in the process. As the Green tried to get off a shot at the other end of the court, Harris was there, and blocked the shot...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Dump Green, 60-40 | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

...next Crimson possession, a spinning Harris received a beautiful pass from Don Fleming, and converted a two-pointer. Harris excited the crowd yet again on the next Harvard possession, throwing up an impossible-looking half-jumper, half-layup to put the Crimson back up by five...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Dump Green, 60-40 | 3/4/1981 | See Source »

...ball spun around the perimeter, as the Crimson looked to get a pass inside for the winning layup. Dixon to Mannix, back to Dixon, over to Joe Carrabino on the left baseline, the seconds ticked past the half-minute mark and toward another overtime stanza...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Tom Mannix and Mark Harris | 2/26/1981 | See Source »

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