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...zero on team play. WILT SCORES 50, WARRIORS LOSE, the headlines often read. The crowds were down on him, too. "I can't love a 7-ft. 1-in. loser," said a fan at the time. So two years ago, San Francisco gladly traded Wilt to the Philadelphia 76ers. Last year the Warriors fired Wilt's coach, Alex Hannum, after a front-office squabble, and he also wound up in Philadelphia. Good riddance? Undeniably-for Chamberlain and Hannum...
Last week the two old Warriors led the 76ers against San Francisco in the finals of the National Basketball Association championships. And revenge, ah, it was sweet. Not that it was easy. The 76ers won the first two games of the best-of-seven series, but the Warriors' big gun now is Rick Barry, 23. Scoring 55 points in one game, 43 in another, Barry carried the Warriors to two victories in the next three games, and returned home trailing by only three games...
...Boston Celtics. For most of a decade the Celtics have utterly dominated pro basketball, winning nine National Basketball Association championships and providing the sport with many of its brightest stars: Bob Cousy, Bill Sharman, Tommy Heinsohn, Sam Jones, Bill Russell. It all ended last week when the Philadelphia 76ers rudely knocked the Celtics from the throne, crushing them four games to one in the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division playoffs...
Boston was never really in the battle, and the reason for that was Wilt Chamberlain. In his eight years in the N.B.A., the 76ers' 7-ft. 1 1/16-in. center has rewritten the record book: there are more than 1,000 entries next to his name, and he has been voted the league's Most Valuable Player three times. But he has never played on a championship team. Last week he took out his frustration on the Celtics, and particularly on his longtime nemesis, Boston's 6-ft. 10-in. center and coach, Bill Russell. In a fierce...
...five games, they jumped into early leads, only to run out of gas. The last game was typical. In the first quarter, the Celtics were ahead by eleven points; by half time their margin was down to five-and the final score was Philadelphia 140, Boston 116. The 76ers still had to get past the Western Division's San Francisco Warriors to claim their first N.B.A. title. But many fans and experts argued that the two best teams in pro basketball had already played each other-and there was no question about which was the better...