Life had been a ball, never to be taken seriously, and now it was in deadly earnest. “I’m the only Laker who never got a raise. I made $10,000 every year I’ve been with the team.”
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Pro Basketball’s Fun at Fort Wayne, 1955
“You think I took a helluva gamble entrusting a team—and a franchise—to a man who had never coached college or pro ball and who was at the time a mere referee. It was no gamble to me.”
Wilt vs. Russell: The Rivalry Begins
When Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain was unveiled last summer against a backdrop of the NBA stars against whom the seven-footer will play this winter, only one word described him: Fantastic.
Highlighting the NBA’s Early Sharpshooters
There are so many sharp shooters coming out of the colleges every year, and so few rookies who can make the NBA, that the pro game, almost by definition, is loaded with sharp-eyed “gunners.”
From Way Downtown 