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After a rally brought them into a 105-105 tie with the Cincinnati Royals with a minute to go, the Celts stood by in embarrassment while Happy Hairston and Oscar Robertson foul-shot the Royals to a 113-107 victory and a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five semifinal series. They play again in Cincinnati Wednesday, and if the Celts lose, they will be out of the play off finals for the first time since...
...first quarter, Robertson looked of he intended to run the game himself. He drove time and again, fed Jerry Lucas adeptly, and sent the Royals into a 27-17 lead...
Sparked by Oscar Robertson's 25 points and Jerry Lucas' 21, the Royals broke out to a 24-13 lead in a rough first quarter as the Celtics were shooting cold. Only Bill Russell's blocking of Cincinnati shots kept the Royals from leading by 25. Boston's effective outside weave cut the Royals' lead to seven at the end of the first quarter...
...Celtics, after a cold third quarter, started their patented fourth period rally. Russell, who missed nine foul shots in the game, and Johnny Havlicek brought the Celts to within one point, 83-82, and within one again, 87-86, before Robertson and Lucas with clutch shooting gave Cincinnati an eight point lead with 40 seconds to play. But a series of Royal miscues allowed the Celts to close...
With six seconds left in the game, Havlicek, the hero of last year's playoffs, attempted his speciality, a steal of the pass-in-bounds. He fouled Robertson, for whom the pass was intended in the back-court, and the "the Big O" sank two foul shots to clinch the upset...