Tuesday, May 5, 2015

What's On TV Today (1969)?

Here's Quarter 4 of Game 7 of the NBA Finals on today (May 5) 1969.





Sure, the camera angle is great until people in the stands start getting up to leave to beat the traffic at the end of the game.

23 comments:

  1. Well, for Pete's sake, the last time 1969 I checked on the NBA, the Celtics were considered done. Now it's 91-76 to start the fourth of Game 7 in Los Angeles.

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    1. 1969 me thinks that Russell is unbeatable. He feels about Chamberlain almost exactly the way I feel about Dominique Wilkins.

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  2. The Bullets won the East, and then they lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Knicks.

    Boston finished fourth in the East. They beat the 76ers and then the Knicks to make the finals.

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  3. This was Wilt Chamberlain's first year in Los Angeles, and it appeared as though things were finally tipped in Wilt's and the Lakers' favor. The Celtics and Lakers both have won their home games in the finals, and, though Los Angeles was way behind the start the final period, the Lakers are back within 103-102 with less than three minutes to play in front of their home fans. The old Celtics look tired; Sam Jones has fouled out, and Bill Russell has five fouls.

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  4. Oddly, Los Angeles has made the second half of this surge without Chamberlain, who twisted his knee earlier in the period. His backup, Mel Counts, just made a 10-foot jumpshot to get the Lakers within one, as Russell could not afford to come out to guard him closely and possibly attract his final personal foul. Then, Counts blocked out Russell on a Celtic miss, and Jerry West rebounded to give the Lakers a chance to take the lead.

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  5. West double-teamed ... Lakers reverse the ball to Elgin Baylor, who fires against Don Nelson ... miss ... Keith Erickson's fifth foul on the rebound ... John Havlicek is headed to the line ... 2:30 to play ...

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  6. Miss ... Counts rebound ... 2:22 ...

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  7. The ABC color commentator: "Look at West wave everyone away ... he wants it by himself ..."

    But Larry Siegfried steals!

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  8. Russell appears to throw the ball out of bounds, but the refs rule that the Lakers touched the ball before it sailed out of the backcourt. About two minutes to go ... still 103-102 ...

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  9. Charging on Don Nelson! ... 1:53 to play ...

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  10. West again doubled ... ball swung around ... Boston steals Erickson's pass for Baylor down low! ...

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  11. Erickson knocks the ball away from Havlicek in the Boston halfcourt, but it bounces right to Nelson ... his 12-footer ricochets high off the rim and then plops back right through the goal! ... Celtics lead, 105-102 ...

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  12. This time, West shoots despite the doubleteam ... MISS! ... Russell rebound ...

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  13. SIEFRIED OFFENSIVE FOUL! ... 46 seconds to go ...

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  14. Counts drives by Russell and tries to pass back out to the backcourt ... RUSSELL STEALS!

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  15. Siegfried fouled ... 24 seconds to go ... No. 1 free-throw shooter in the NBA ... GOOD! ... GOOD! ... 107-102 ... That should do it ...

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  16. Now here go the fans, blocking ABC's camera angle ...

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    1. I actually think Chamberlain is an interesting story. To 1969 me, he's just a loser.

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    2. This was Van Breda Kolff's last game as coach of the Lakers, and the last time he ever had the chance to coach a really good team.

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  18. Chris Schenkel: "Of course, you'll have to say, the Celtics ... the greatest sports dynasty in the history of athletics ..."

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  19. With the fans continuing to file out in Los Angeles, the organist is playing "Seventy-six Trombones." Schenkel points out that the rafters are filled with balloons that weren't released.

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    1. Those balloons -- and this whole Laker team -- were owned by Jack Kent Cooke, who later came east to buy the Redskins. The story of Cooke and his balloons before Game 7 used to be pretty famous story in D.C.

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