Word: wilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilt Chamberlain, playing with a badly injured right wrist, led the Los Angeles Lakers to their first National Basketball championship last night with a 114-100 victory over the Knicks...
...Success steered him into psychoanalysis and broke up his five-year marriage. Although he walks with the slight stoop of a man concerned with not bumping his head, he seems to like towering over everyone else. On the L.A. party circuit, only the Lakers' Wilt Chamberlain could challenge this distinction. Crichton's tastes run to the sound and costly. He has a Mercedes-Benz sedan to replace a Porsche, which he found too cramping, and recently purchased a house designed by Richard Neutra...
They could, but no one, not even the Knicks, expect the rest of the 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...
...Towering Wilt Chamberlain, the 7-foot-1 1/2, 275-pound center, led the Lakers with 26 points, one more than Gail Goodrich...
...playing at home, he explains that "it's harder to sustain a winning streak in basketball. We have tougher travel conditions and have to fight the other teams' home court advantage, which doesn't mean as much in baseball." That argument does not impress Laker Center Wilt Chamberlain, who remembers his days with the Harlem Globetrotters' traveling basketball show. "I played with them when they won all their games," he says, "and they were all on the road...