Word: pettits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SYRACUSE, N.Y., Jan. 14--Elgin Baylor hustled out of a sick bed and, helped by Oscar Robertson, Bob Pettit and Clyde Lovellette, led a first quarter drive tonight that carried an underdog West team to a record-breaking 153-131 victory over the East in the National Basketball Association All-Star game...
Robertson, the ace rookie from Cincinnati, and veterans Pettit and Lovellette from the St. Louis Hawks, took up the attack that didn't give the favored East a chance. In the first quarter alone, Robertson scored 13 points, Pettit 9, Lovellette 8, and Baylor...
...Pettit was the game's leading scorer with 29 points, while Robertson, voted the most valuable player, had 23. Lovellette had 21. Baylor was withdrawn from the game after eight minutes and was used intermittently, winding up with 15 points...
...ended, Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, 23, in his rookie year had decisively rewritten the N.B.A. record books. Among his new marks: 2,707 points and an average of 37.6 points per game (the old records: 2,105 and 29.2, both set by St. Louis' Bob Pettit), and 1,941 rebounds (old record: 1,612, set by Boston's Bill Russell...
...games still to play, he had scored more points and snared more rebounds than any other player ever had in a full season. Against the Detroit Pistons he scored 41 points to raise his total to 2,134, break by 29 the season record of St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in., 215 lbs.). In the same game he pulled down 16 rebounds for a total of 1,613, one more than the record set last year by Boston's Bill Russell...