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...comeback by the Philadelphia '76ers fell two points short in the closing seconds of their game at Portland yesterday, as the Trailblazers hustled their way to a 109-107 victory and their first NBA championship in the sixth game of the NBA playoff finals...
...fans has been rewarded. Led by a reborn Bill Walton, the Blazers this season finished second in the N.B.A.'s Pacific division and made a four-game sweep of the first-place Los Angeles Lakers in the play-off semifinals, earning the right to meet the favored Philadelphia 76ers for the championship in a best-of-seven series beginning this week. Portland's sound team play should match up well against the freewheeling superstar style of the Julius Ervingand George McGinnis-led 76ers...
Those NBA playoff series promise to be long, drawn-out affairs. The Trail Blazers and the 76ers should win their series in 192 minutes, each...The Bruins-Canadians series is being blessed with winter-like weather in the Boston area. Some Bostonians report that temperatures plummeted this week to near freezing and that some snow fell...
...like the black athletes are just able to do more things than the other athletes." One of those things is jumping, especially important in basketball. In fact, it is generally acknowledged in the N.B.A. that blacks have a great edge in jumping-so much so that, on the Philadelphia 76ers, a player who cannot jump well is said to have "white guy's disease." Superjumper Julius Erving notes jumping is an ability that can be developed through practice, and points to Denver's Bobby Jones and Buffalo's Gus Gerard as "exceptional jumpers for white guys...
...Boston Celtics, powered by the 40-point performance of Jo Jo White, sent their playoff series with the Philadelphia 76ers into a seventh game with a 113-108 victory last night in the Boston Garden. Julius Erving scored 14 and Doug Collins pumped in 32 for the Sixers...