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...relaxed Abdul-Jabbar has emerged as the Lakers' leader in the locker room as well as on the court. After his teammates turned in a lackadaisical first half against the Seattle Supersonics during the playoffs, he delivered "my first-ever locker-room talk. Most of it was a lot of expletives deleted." Whatever the content, it worked; the Lakers won the game by six points. Recalls Magic Johnson, Los Angeles' marvelous rookie guard: "He was E.F. Hutton. Everybody listened...
Murray, finally showing signs of life, dropped a coke can on the locker-room floor where it joined orange peels, tape and other coke cans dropped with similar cathartic emotion...
When his team loses, Billy Cleary calmly talks to reporters and friends outside the locker-room door. No yelling, no loss of temper, just cool, contained, quietly boiling frustration...
Surrounded by well-wishers in a noisy locker-room, Cleary sported a wide, toothy grin as he commended the newcomers for overcoming initial jitters...
Keller-Sarmineto sprained his ankle later in the game and limped off the field. Later, as two teammates supported him on his way to the locker-room, he said he expected to be ready for Friday's Ivy battle against Brown...