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With 15 seconds left in the seventh game of the annual Sixers-Celtics playoff struggle. Eric Fernsten stepped to the foul line for Boston, 1982 was over for the men in White and Green...
Rarely do sports fans display such close--especially after the home team has rallied against seemingly insurmountable odds, only to fall short in the final minutes of a thrilling playoff confrontation. What the Garden spectators remembered, however, is that like Bird, Maxwell, Archibald and the rest, they too are responsible for upholding Celtics Pride, and they did by cheering for the team that played better basketball when it counted...
After the second game of the Eastern Conference playoff, when the 76ers rebounded from a 40-point loss to the Celtics to square the series, Philadelphia Forward Bobby Jones was waiting for Erving at his locker. "Thanks, Doc," said Jones, who had been having a bad time, "for getting me off of it." On consecutive trips down the court, Erving had faked, dribbled and personally arranged easy shots for Jones just to get him going again...
Sharpshooting Andrew Toney tallied a playoff career-high 39 points to lead the 76ers as host Philadelphia pounded Boston, 119-94, to take a 3-1 lead yesterday in their best-of-seven National Basketball Association Eastern Conference Championship...
...Crimson to a seventh-place showing at the New England Division 1 NCAA qualifying tournament, held at the Pleasant Valley Country Club near Worcester. Lowenstein shot 78 and 77 to tie Rhode Island's Pat Horgan for low-score medalist honors, then won the two-hole, sudden death playoff...