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...kind of person who sits through the same movie three times loves pro basketball. The script is always the same (When was the last time the Boston Celtics lost the championship?), and the faces are familiar: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Oscar Robertson. Nor was it news last week when those perennial cellar dwellers, the New York Knicks, lost their sixth out of seven games, 115-109 to the Cincinnati Royals. All in all, the new National Basketball Association season was more of the same, with one big exception: the sensational shooting of San Francisco's Rick Barry...
...bombarding the basket at a fantastic rate. Last week he poured in 40 points as the San Francisco Warriors beat the Baltimore Bullets 120-110. After 21 games, Rick was averaging 38.5 points per game-almost seven points more than Cincinnati's Robertson and 14 points ahead of Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, the N.B.A.'s all-time top scorer. And so the Warriors were leading the Western Division by two games...
...Shapp campaign treasury paid $250 to a Baptist ministers conference, something like $1,000 apiece to two Baptist ministers who agreed to work for the candidate. Three Negro athletes also received several hundred dollars apiece for posing for promotional pictures: Timmy Brown, a halfback for the Philadelphia Eagles; Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, a center for the 76ers basketball team; and Ira Davis, an Olympic track star. In his own defense, Shapp testified that the players had volunteered, and that he was surprised when he was asked to pay them...
...fact that he is a Negro is enough to ensure that Bill Russell will be a controversial coach. Russell would be controversial in any color. Often arrogant, usually angry, always outspoken, he is a born boat rocker-"all hung up," in the words of his close friend and archrival, Wilt Chamberlain. He named his four-year-old daughter Kenyatta after Jomo Kenyatta, the onetime Mau Mau leader and current President of Kenya. He has called pro basketball "a child's game," insisted that "it isn't incumbent upon me to set a good example for anybody...
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...