Word: play-off
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...regular season of the Eastern League closed with a photo finish yesterday as Harvard and Cornell capped three-game winning streaks to tie for first place with identical 10-4 records. The play-off game to determine the league championship will probably be played this week, and the winner will represent the EIBL in the NCAA Division I tournament...
...first game of the final play-off series for the National Basketball Association championship was basketball at its whirling, swirling, entertaining best. Skill not size, strategy not speed, and marksmanship not muscle were the dominant factors as the poised New York Knicks upset the prestigious Los Angeles Lakers 114-92. Even the Lakers were awed as the sharpshooting Knicks passed and moved through swift, intricate patterns; in the first half, they hit 72% of their field shots. Rasped Los Angeles Coach Bill Sharman, victim of a long siege of laryngitis: "They could be the best-shooting team in basketball...
...best-of-seven series to repeat the action of the first game. The Knicks could hardly play any better; the Lakers clearly can and doubtless will. The Lakers' giant center, Wilt Chamberlain, for instance, may never again be as effectively neutralized. Teammate Jerry West, the alltime N.B.A. play-off scoring leader, cannot do anything but improve his sickly opening-game shooting performance of three baskets in 15 attempts. At the very least, the Knicks1 performance in the first game gave promise that the championship series would be far more exciting a match than anyone had dreamed...
...starting forward, the Lakers have Harold ("Happy") Hairston, a rugged rebounder who complements Wilt in controlling the backboards. The other is Second-Year Man Jim McMillian (rhymes with villain), who is deadly from the corner and scored a career high of 42 points in one of the play-off games against Milwaukee...
...seasons in the league, and the Most Valuable Player in this year's mid-season classic, scored 21 points against the Knicks. His last two points, on a jump shot from the right side with just over three minutes remaining, gave him 4,001 points in 133 play-off games...