Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week. Bedeviled by injuries, belittled by sportswriters, the perennial champions (seven straight years) of the National Basketball Association walloped the Philadelphia 76ers in the finals of the Eastern Division playoffs, thereby winning the right to meet the Los Angeles Lakers for the N.B.A. title, and demonstrating once again that Wilt Chamberlain is not the best basketball team in the world...
...Boston won the best-of-seven series four games to one. Chamberlain's problem just might have been an accumulation of rust. With the 76ers trailing the Celtics 2-1, Philadelphia Coach Dolph Schayes announced that there would be a practice session next day. "No, Dolph," said Wilt. "I'm tired...
Sophomore Bob Kidder, who was pushed all the way down to six from his initial four spot, hasn't won yet. Even steady Wayne Thornborough is begining to wilt...
...mother, two feet shorter than Wilt Chamberlain [April 1] and 40 years his senior, discovered that they lived at the same address when he permitted her to hold the front door open for himself and his dogs. Intrigued with this bit of noblesse oblige, I inquired if he had rewarded her in the customary fashion with "thank you." "I don't recall that he did," my mother replied. Only sportsmen will understand my profound sense of relief for that answer. No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired...
...alive its chances for still another (its ninth) world championship; at the Boston Garden. Trailing the Royals 1-0 and 2-1 in the best-of-five series, the Celtics rebounded to win the last two games on the shooting of Sam Jones and John Havlicek, now take on Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Division finals...