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Boston, which won for the 35th time in the last 36 games at Boston Garden, was led by Bird with 36 points, Kevin McHale with 20 and Johnson with...
BOSTON--Larry bird scored 40 points as the Boston Celtics, playing without Kevin McHale, never trailed and beat the Milwaukee Bucks, 111-98, last night in the opener of their NBA Eastern Conference semifinal series...
...McHale, the NBA's sixth leading regular-season scorer, suited up but rested his sprained right ankle. The defending champion Celtics, meanwhile, showed no rustiness from a six-day layoff following their first-round sweep of Chicago...
...Boston got 10 of the next 12 points, with Bird and Fred Roberts, who started for McHale, scoring four each. That spurt boosted the lead to 85-69 with 1:08 remaining in the quarter...
...stand and gawk. A sizable but unsturdy slab of alabaster, Walton was once breathtakingly Bird-like. Now he is the handiest extra man on an exceedingly deep team that chanced to lose just one home game this interminable season. Bostonians are poised to measure Bird, Robert Parish, Kevin McHale, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge and company against any club of memory or mythology, from Chamberlain's Philadelphia 76ers and Willis Reed's New York Knicks, to the Bob Cousy, Frank Ramsey and Sam Jones Celtics of more than two decades back...