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Anybody who stands 7 ft. l½ in. tall makes a pretty good target, and Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain has taken his share of abuse from fans (who holler "goon" and "freak") and sportswriters (who call him a poor team player). Wilt's answers take up most of the space in the National Basketball Association's record book. He has scored as many as 100 points in a single night. He also has taken more shots at the basket (63), sunk more free throws (28) and collected more rebounds (55) in one game than anybody else. Last week...
...This means more to me than anything," Wilt said afterward. Anything, that is, except winning-which the Philadelphia 76ers did, 149 to 123, and which they have been doing all season with such regularity that last week they trailed the World Champion Boston Celtics by only i game. With Wilt averaging 34.6 points and 24 rebounds a game, getting plenty of help from the likes of Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Bill Cunningham, Chamberlain may yet have the ultimate reply for his critics: an N.B.A. championship...
...sentiments, exactly, of the players in last week's National Basketball Association All-Star game. To begin with, there was never any question about who would win, because all the big stars-Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson-were on one side. The East had already won the game three years in a row, and had no trouble making it four straight, 137-94. But if the game itself was a bore, the game within the game was fascinating because, for the first time, N.B.A. officials had decided to give something of value to the night's most...
...Robertson, who already has both a 1965 Cadillac and a 1966 Olds Toronado, was the logical candidate, but he had an unaccountably bad night, scoring just 17 points-14 below his average. With Robertson's modest defection, there seemed to be no way to keep Philadelphia's Wilt Chamberlain from winning the Ford-although he needed it less than anybody else, since he owns a $24,000 Bentley-and can't get into a Volkswagen. At 7 ft. 2 in., Chamberlain was just too tall and talented to avoid scoring 21 points. Auerbach finally got lucky when...
...then the Crimson's zone defense began to wilt, B.U.'s Steve Pugatch (who had 25 points for the night) drove in for a hook shot, Randy Robinson scored on a drive, and Larry Gluck swished a 25-foot bomb, John Scott sank two foul shots for Harvard, but B.U. came right back with two quick baskets. Harvard led, 73 to 71, with 13 seconds on the clock...