Posted on 06/12/2024 8:07:39 AM PDT by hole_n_one
Which NY Post sports writer Murray Kempton said was like surrendering after Hiroshima. To the Japanese.
Thanks for sharing it!
What a series that was. Maybe the greatest ever.
Everybody was in the shadow of Chamberlain, just the Celtics won anyway. The guy scored a hundred points in a game.
Alcindor joined an expansion team. Won the title in his second year.
Everybody was in the shadow of Chamberlain
Not Bill Russell.
Wow; I didn’t know we lost “The Jet”. How did I miss it, I wonder?
Sometimes I don’t know why I bother to add to a discussion.
I had a similar feeling when the Raptors won in 2019. I heard or read the results after and was happy they won but I never watched any of it. That would have been unheard of 20 or 25 years ago for me but here I am ignoring it all now for the most part.
I would have preferred the Stars making the Stanley Cup Finals.
If Edmonton gets swept they might feel the same. Next game is pretty much do or die for them. Comebacks when you’re down 3-0 are somewhat rare. Happened a few times in the NHL and once in MLB. Never in the NBA so the Mavs are in a similar sticky wicket.
Edmonton dominated Game 1 on the ice, but Bobrovsky was a wall.
Rest in peace.
that’s cool- alcindor is now kind of a jerk- but was fun to watch back i nthe day-
Just saw a special on Pistol Pete Maravich- what a player he was! incredible record- averaging 44.2 shots per game- scored 60+ points one game- Too bad his health was so bad- He died at 40- and saw that his son died at 42 this year 2024- not sure what happened to him though-
They had quite a team though. Bob Dandridge, and Oscar Robertson. Dandridge scored a ton and Oscar dishing out th rock. He was the best PG of his era to me. Like Magic of the day. I watched them play, it was magic too.
There’s no doubt now about how this series will go.
Boston wraps it up on Friday.
“Amazing that the Lakers didn’t win more titles with those teams.”
They ran into a little team in the northeast called the Celtics with Bill Russell, Tom Heinson, Sam and KC Jones and an established coach in Auerbach. The Lakers lacked good coching during those years. Fred Schaus and Bill van Breda Kolff.
Schaus was the first LA Laker coach when they came in and had a good record, but not like Boston. Van Breda Kolff in two seasons had a less than 500 percentage and couldn’t control the players.
Jerry West retired in 1974 but the Lakers didn’t win a majority of their championships until the late 1970’s to late 1980’s. Wilt retired in 1973 and Baylor in 1971, long before they were winning championships in LA.
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Yeah I guess he and also Cassius clay both grew up in tough times for black folks- I guess I object to alcindors radical liberal views and animosity towards Trump and conservatives in r3cent years, and for calling for the repeal of 1st amendment rights of politicians.
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