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...Celtics usually win the N.B.A. championship by the simple stratagem of walloping the sneakers off everyone in sight. Not this year. The Celtics had to scramble for a 54-26 regular season record and second place behind the Philadelphia 76ers. They then had to beat third-place Cincinnati and the first-place 76ers in the Eastern Division play-offs for the right to meet the Western Division's Los Angeles Lakers in the N.B.A. finals...
...plus four does not necessarily equal five, as the Boston Celtics proved last week. Bedeviled by injuries, belittled by sportswriters, the perennial champions (seven straight years) of the National Basketball Association walloped the Philadelphia 76ers in the finals of the Eastern Division playoffs, thereby winning the right to meet the Los Angeles Lakers for the N.B.A. title, and demonstrating once again that Wilt Chamberlain is not the best basketball team in the world...
...next two games he scored 41 points and sparked Boston to victory. Against Philadelphia in the finals, he scored 127 points, as Boston won the best-of-seven series four games to one. Chamberlain's problem just might have been an accumulation of rust. With the 76ers trailing the Celtics 2-1, Philadelphia Coach Dolph Schayes announced that there would be a practice session next day. "No, Dolph," said Wilt. "I'm tired...
...another (its ninth) world championship; at the Boston Garden. Trailing the Royals 1-0 and 2-1 in the best-of-five series, the Celtics rebounded to win the last two games on the shooting of Sam Jones and John Havlicek, now take on Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Division finals...
...game if need be," Wilt explained in Baltimore last week. "But the purpose of this game is to win, not set records." So saying, he strode out onto the court, picked off 26 rebounds, scored 24 points and set up three other Philadelphia baskets with assists, as the 76ers beat the Baltimore Bullets 108-104 in their last game of the season. The victory was Philadelphia's eleventh straight, and it earned the 76ers the N.B.A.'s Eastern Division championship-by the slim margin of one game over the perennial champion (nine straight years) Boston Celtics...