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...Ivies (basketball-wise that is) to begin with. The Tigers are not only defending NIT champs, but the nucleus of that team is back, a group which includes 6'7" Barnes Hauptfuhrer, whose father was a star at Harvard and was the first player every selected in the NBA draft...
When we were kids, Bob Cousy the basketball player was someone we knew about only from the exalted tones with which our fathers talked of him. Most of his career was in the fifties, when the NBA was still a shoestring operation. We only saw him in action when local TV stations would occasionally trot out old Celtic film clips. Then we got a chance to witness the effortless behind-the-back passes that made him a legend and earned for the Cooz his niche as the greatest backcourt man of all time...
...NBA draft might see Lou Silver's name pop up. Otherwise, seniors Silver, Arnie Needleman and Mike Griffin are all considering playing ball in Europe, Needleman said yesterday...
...Washington Bullets defeated the Boston Celtics yesterday afternoon, 98-92, to win their best-of-seven series for the Eastern Conference championship, four games to two. The Bullets, reaching the NBA finals for only the second time in their history, will play the championship round against either the Golden State Warriors or the Chicago Bulls. Those clubs are knotted at 3-3 in their battle for the Western Conference championship...
Harvard accomplished this feat despite the sub-par (as in too many shots over par) performance of number one man Alex Vik, a victory equivalent to the Celtics winning the NBA Championship with Henry Finkel as the starting center...