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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #125: April 16, 2018, 02:18:52 PM »
Still say the 66-67 Sixers were the best team ever. Had a hall of famer (Billy Cunningham) as the sixth man.

Kevin McHale says 'hey, what about me and the Celts?"

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #126: April 16, 2018, 06:30:43 PM »
Kevin McHale says 'hey, what about me and the Celts?"
Boston, yuck.

Here is a Hal Greer your use mix for the youngins here.  And the old farts.


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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #127: April 16, 2018, 06:49:21 PM »
Boston, yuck.

Here is a Hal Greer your use mix for the youngins here.  And the old farts.


Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeriste I'm sittin' here pickin' out and namin' the players in the video.     :old:


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« Reply #128: April 16, 2018, 08:02:47 PM »
Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeriste I'm sittin' here pickin' out and namin' the players in the video.     :old:
I knew you were going to note that.

I think there is one where Darrell Imhoff sets a pick for him. Brought back memories of the Chamberlain trade. Still makes me mad. 😩

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #129: April 16, 2018, 08:03:25 PM »
I knew you were going to note that.

I think there is one where Darrell Imhoff sets a pick for him. Brought back memories of the Chamberlain trade. Still makes me mad. 😩

Did you see that pick and roll with Wilt?     :38 mark.



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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #132: April 16, 2018, 08:52:44 PM »
Did you see that pick and roll with Wilt?     :38 mark.
Checked it out again. Wilt was quite the passer.

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« Reply #133: April 16, 2018, 08:56:35 PM »
Checked it out again. Wilt was quite the passer.

He was so much better than he was given credit for in all aspects of the game.   IMHO.

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #134: April 16, 2018, 09:06:08 PM »
He was so much better than he was given credit for in all aspects of the game.   IMHO.

Free throws?

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #135: April 16, 2018, 09:30:30 PM »
Free throws?

You're reachin' Kevin.

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #136: April 16, 2018, 10:30:02 PM »
Wow he was young.

Loved that show and his appearances on Cheers. Sad.

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« Reply #137: April 16, 2018, 10:37:13 PM »
Loved that show and his appearances on Cheers. Sad.

Oh wow he used to do magic tricks and con Sam out of beer right? I’d completely forgotten that!

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #138: April 17, 2018, 10:48:29 AM »
Still say the 66-67 Sixers were the best team ever. Had a hall of famer (Billy Cunningham) as the sixth man.
85-86 Celtics. 5 hall of famers plus a couple more all stars.  In terms of smarts, I think at least 4 won coach or executive of the year, not to mention the analysts, etc... 

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« Reply #139: April 17, 2018, 11:51:28 AM »
85-86 Celtics. 5 hall of famers plus a couple more all stars.  In terms of smarts, I think at least 4 won coach or executive of the year, not to mention the analysts, etc...
But no Wilt.

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #140: April 17, 2018, 01:20:12 PM »
But no Wilt.
And Wilt beat Russell how many times? 

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #141: April 17, 2018, 01:23:05 PM »
And Wilt beat Russell how many times? 

Give Wilt  ... KC, Sam, Tommy, John, Bob, Red.

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« Reply #142: April 17, 2018, 01:29:04 PM »
Give Wilt  ... KC, Sam, Tommy, John, Bob, Red.

I used to park Red's car at Woodmont CC.  He had DC plates - "CELTS" on a little 2 seater Mercedes.  Reeked of cigar smoke, but Red was a good tipper.    :clap:

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #143: April 17, 2018, 01:37:03 PM »
Give Wilt  ... KC, Sam, Tommy, John, Bob, Red.
you two were just talking about how great the Sixers were with Wilt, Greer, Cunningham, etc... now you want to make an issue of the side cast?  Russell and Sam Jones were the only constants on those teams, and Sam and KC were stuck behind Cousy and Sharman for the first half decade or so.  Wilt still lost to Russell when he had Jerry West and Elgin Baylor and the Celts had Havlicek, Don Nelson, and a crew either going out the door or coming in.

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« Reply #144: April 17, 2018, 01:42:15 PM »
you two were just talking about how great the Sixers were with Wilt, Greer, Cunningham, etc... now you want to make an issue of the side cast?  Russell and Sam Jones were the only constants on those teams, and Sam and KC were stuck behind Cousy and Sharman for the first half decade or so.  Wilt still lost to Russell when he had Jerry West and Elgin Baylor and the Celts had Havlicek, Don Nelson, and a crew either going out the door or coming in.

Another reason the "hate" the Celtics.

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #145: April 17, 2018, 04:42:18 PM »
Carl Kasell, NPR broadcaster.

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Carl Kasell, a radio personality who brought gravitas and goofiness to the airwaves, first as a staid newsreader on NPR’s “Morning Edition” and later as the comic foil and scorekeeper on the delightfully silly news quiz show “Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!,” died April 17 at an assisted-living center in Potomac, Md. He was 84.

The cause was complications from Alzheimer’s disease, said his wife, Mary Ann Foster.

Mr. Kasell’s voice, resonant and reassuring, with a lilting trace of his North Carolina tobacco country heritage, helped define NPR as an emerging force in news broadcasting. He joined the public radio network in 1975 and, four years later, helped inaugurate “Morning Edition,” writing and reading five-minute top-of-the-hour news updates from pre-dawn to the lunch hour.

For 30 years, he was an unflappable anchor of that digest, bringing a no-frills seriousness to unfolding history, from the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. His skill was conveying the drama of the news while maintaining an unforced conversational delivery, what an NPR executive once described as the warm voice of an informed companion.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/carl-kasell-npr-broadcaster-who-brought-gravitas-and-goofiness-to-the-airwaves-dies-at-84/2018/04/17/173eecc2-3b49-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html?utm_term=.79bc7044901c

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Re: Deaths of Famous People (2018)
« Reply #146: April 17, 2018, 05:06:25 PM »
Carl Kasell, NPR broadcaster.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/carl-kasell-npr-broadcaster-who-brought-gravitas-and-goofiness-to-the-airwaves-dies-at-84/2018/04/17/173eecc2-3b49-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html?utm_term=.79bc7044901c

Man, he had the voice/delivery.     When I worked in IT, the only thing that could penetrate the dungeon was NPR (WETA).   Kasell, Diane Rehm, Kojo Nnamdi, Mark Plotkin, Derrick McGinty, et.al carried me through many a day.


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