by John Taylor
“Let’s run ’em”: Ibid.
Phil Jordon, the Knicks’ starting center: Auth. int. of Joe Ruklick.
“You’re all I’ve got”: The New York Times, March 1, 1987.
It seemed to Imhoff: The Washington Times, March 2, 1987.
“Why don’t you”: Associated Press, Oct. 13, 1999.
Give it to Wilt!: The New York Times, March 1, 1987.
Chamberlain’s friend and teammate: Auth. int. of Al Attles.
“There’s no way”: Libby, Goliath, 104.
Donovan ordered: USA Today, March 2, 1987.
It was an ironic reversal: Auth. int. of Paul Arizin.
This game, it seemed to Guerin: Pluto, Tall Tales, 223.
“He’s going for one hundred”: The New York Times, March 1, 1987.
Wilt shot, missed: Auth. int. of Joe Ruklick.
“This ball is a relic”: Auth. int. of Harvey Pollack.
“I never thought”: Auth. int. of Al Attles; also Pluto, Tall Tales, 223.
CHAPTER 13
The award gave Russell: Libby, Goliath, 76.
“the fiercest private war”: “Bill vs. Wilt—Basketball’s Epic Battle,” Life, Dec. 1, 1961.
“All season Russell”: The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 24, 1962.
a “new” Wilt: Ibid.
What are you doing?: The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 1962.
“There would have been more”: Boston Herald, April 2, 1962.
“The brawl had”: The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 1962.
Russell, who had suffered: The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 7, 1962.
They had no game plan: The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 6, 1962.
When Sam got the pass: Boston Herald, April 6, 1962.
a “malfunction” in the clock: Boston Herald-Traveler, April 8, 1969.
McGuire was so infuriated: Libby, Goliath, 111.
“Who beat you?”: Boston Herald, April 6, 1962.
“You remember”: Chamberlain, Wilt, 140.
He thought it was: Fitzgerald, Championship, 116.
“the hardest earned”: Boston Herald, April 6, 1962.
“If it were baseball”: Ibid.
Both teams had been playing: West, Mr. Clutch, 93.
Whenever Hano watched: “Jerry West’s Burden,” Sport, March 1962.
Tweety Bird: Pluto, Tall Tales, 189.
Despite his modest height: “Unpredictable All-American,” The Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 9, 1960.
it pained the coach: “Unpredictable All-American,” The Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 9, 1960.
West decided: West, Mr. Clutch, 78.
West thought the policy: Ibid., 47.
Hundley came to hate: “Hot Rod Hundley,” Sport, Dec. 1962.
“Mr. Clutch”: Harris, Fabulous, 61.
the ultimate trophy moment: West, Mr. Clutch, 105.
Schaus thought Selvy: Los Angeles Times, April 16, 1962.
West himself had wanted: West, Mr. Clutch, 106.
Russell, watching: Fitzgerald, Championship, 117.
Auerbach, standing: Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1962.
I missed it: New York Post, April 19, 1962.
He’d made up his mind: Boston Herald, April 19, 1962.
“I’m glad that’s over”: Fitzgerald, Championship, 118.
“I missed the big one”: Boston Herald, April 19, 1962.
CHAPTER 14
“The Celtics conjure”: Boston Herald, Jan. 9, 1966.
Corner Boys: The New York Times, BHFA.
Dolph Schayes: Auth. int. of Dolph Schayes.
Over the years: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
“Johnny, I got”: Carey, High Above, 141.
For all the aura: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn. Also “The Master’s Touch,” Sports Illustrated, April 5, 1965.
To Havlicek: Havlicek, Hondo, 82.
the Celtics’ training camp: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
one fat center: The Boston Globe, Sept. 24, 1968.
Auerbach rode: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn; also Cousy, Last, 126, and Auerbach, Red, 189.
Gentlemen, you are: Boston Herald, Sept. 28, 1984.
Chamberlain and a friend: Chamberlain, Wilt, 143.
Gottlieb made numerous: San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 13, 1964.
The investors acquiring: Auth. int. of Shirley Figgins, Franklin Mieuli’s assistant.
Gottlieb complained: Gottlieb correspondence, BHFA.
“Frank McGuire must have”: Ibid.
In fact, Ben Kerner: Ben Kerner int. in Boston Herald, Jan. 2, 1985.
Red, give ’em: Auerbach, Winning, 161.
“How come the people”: “The Master’s Touch,” Sports Illustrated, April 5, 1965.
he was feeling: Auerbach, Winning, 197.
“He could sit there”: Cited in ibid., 210.
“a bleeding shark”: Cited in ibid., 215.
“a ham actor”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16, 1963.
While Auerbach was: Auerbach, Winning, 217.
“I suppose you people”: Harris, Fabulous, 69; Auerbach, Winning, 215.
“Cousy and Big O”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 17, 1963.
he’d felt that the pressure: Cousy, Basketball, 177.
He suffered from nightmares: Cousy, Last, 16.
“Not since that memorable day”: Boston Herald, March 18, 1963.
“I’m the guy who didn’t want”: Ibid.
“We love ya, Cooz!”: Greenfield, World’s Greatest, 48.
“The long reign”: Cited in Cousy, Last, 37.
Game six was in: Account of trip and game day from Cousy, Last, 39–257; Boston Herald, April 25, 1963.
“You don’t have fans”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 16, 1963.
Russell, who was so fatigued: Russell, Go Up, 140.
“With a farewell performance”: Boston Herald, April 26, 1963.
CHAPTER 15
He had of course heard: “Old Days and Changed Ways,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 25, 1968.
“Does Chamberlain demand”: “Meet the New Wilt Chamberlain,” Sports Illustrated, March 12, 1964.
Since the season was: “I’ve Barely Begun to Fight,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 18, 1968.
“What the hell”: “Sarge Takes Philly to the Top,” Sports Illustrated, Feb. 1, 1967.
The Warriors, he thought: “The Fight to Remodel Wilt Chamberlain,” Sport, Feb. 1964.
he had urged Dolph: Auth. int. of Dolph Schayes.
“You don’t raise”: “The Fight to Remodel Wilt Chamberlain,” Sport, Feb. 1964.
The tension built: “The Waiting Made It Sweeter,” Sports Illustrated, May 8, 1967.
“You’ve been fighting me”: “The Startling Change in Wilt Chamberlain,” Sport, March 1967.
One article: “The Fight to Remodel Wilt Chamberlain,” Sport, Feb. 1964.
“You’ve got to bow down”: “How Guy Rogers Moves the Warriors,” Sport, Dec. 1964.
“a neurotic need”: Boston Herald, Sept. 28, 1984.
the most selfish, surly: Greenfield, World’s Greatest, 99.
Sanders and Jones decided: “Bill Russell’s Private World,” Sport, Feb. 1963.
“I thought the only people”: Russell, Go Up, 135.
A month later, however: The Washington Post, May 26, 1999.
And the worst part: “We Are Grown Men Playing a Child’s Game,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 18, 1963.
Like other black Americans: Bill Russell int. by UPI, in BHFA; Christian Science Monitor, Feb. 12, 1975.
Bill Russell had been tempted: “We Are Grown Men Playing a Child’s Game,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 18, 1963.
“by standing in the schoolhouse”: Branch, Parting, 821.
an “explosive situation”: Ibid., 832.
Russell flew to Jackson: Russell, Go Up, 165.
“I consider playing”: “We Are Grown Men Playing a Child’s Game,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 18, 1963.
“Hey Russell, I’m white”: “The Ring Leader
,” Sports Illustrated, May 10, 1999.
“Isn’t that sweet”: “I Owe the Public Nothing,” The Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 18, 1964.
“I’m so great”: Hauser, Muhammad, 83.
“an arrogant Negro”: “Growing Up with Privilege and Prejudice,” The New York Times Magazine, June 14, 1987.
When the Russells returned: Ibid.
CHAPTER 16
the biggest storm: Boston Herald, Jan. 14, 1964.
While the owners were meeting: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
“I’ve never had”: Cousy, Basketball, 130.
“the kid forever”: Cited in Fitzgerald, Championship, 205.
The association remained weak: Auth. ints. of Tom Heinsohn and Al Domenico.
“We sat cooling”: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
“I don’t even have”: Ibid.
By five o’clock: New York Post, Jan. 15, 1964.
Shortly before six: The New York Times, Jan. 15, 1964.
“You can’t do this”: Auerbach, Winning, 58.
Heinsohn refused: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
The players took a vote: New York Post, Jan. 15, 1964.
“You go tell”: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
“If any of my players”: Russell, Go Up, 66.
“You can’t do this”: Pettit, Bob Pettit, 160.
A number of the players: New York Post, Jan. 15, 1964.
Even though catastrophe: Boston Herald, Jan. 17, 1964.
Brown himself had given: Boston Herald, Jan. 15, 1964.
“Whenever we win”: Boston Herald, Jan. 17, 1964.
“No, I wouldn’t”: Ibid.
Heinsohn had: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
“Tom Heinsohn told me”: Boston Herald, Jan. 18, 1964.
Baylor knew: Auth. int. of Elgin Baylor.
“It’s sad to speak”: Cited in Harris, Fabulous, 78.
Some seven doctors: Auth. int. of Elgin Baylor.
“The Lakers are ruining”: “Elgin Baylor: A Career in Danger,” Sport, April 1964.
“What about the claim”: Ibid.
Finally, the Lakers arranged: Auth. int. of Elgin Baylor.
“Take a vacation”: “Elgin Baylor: A Career in Danger,” Sport, April 1964.
“muscle and hustle”: Harris, Lonely, 49.
“I told them”: Sullivan, Wilt Chamberlain, 151.
“I want to tell you”: “How Guy Rogers Moves the Warriors,” Sport, Dec. 1964.
Havlicek loved to watch: Havlicek, Hondo, 132.
He once wrote: “How I Psych Them,” Sports Illustrated, Oct. 25, 1965.
It seemed to Russell: Russell, Second Wind, 181.
Russell did wonder: Libby, Goliath, 88.
going into the finals: “The Winning Ways of Red Auerbach,” Sport, March 1965.
He hated the travel: Russell, Second Wind, 248.
“You know,” Hannum told Chamberlain: “Old Days and Changed Ways,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 25, 1968.
“Get back, Red”: Russell, Go Up, 105.
Chamberlain, finally losing it: Boston Herald, April 21, 1964.
“I want Wilt”: Pluto, Tall Tales, 239.
“Wilt’s right cross”: Boston Herald, April 21, 1964.
At the Celtics’ breakup dinner: Auth. int. of Tom Heinsohn.
“I would like to say”: Boston Herald, April 28, 1964.
CHAPTER 17
“We will utilize”: Arledge, Roone, 30.
“ABC Sports gained”: Ibid., 83.
On Labor Day: Boston Herald, Sept. 8, 1964.
“The Celtics—the very name”: The Boston Globe, Sept. 9, 1964.
“the personification”: Boston Herald, Sept. 12, 1964.
He initially suspected: Sullivan, Wilt Chamberlain, 152.
He ordered Chamberlain: San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 23, 1964.
“Dr. Good News”: San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 30, 1964.
“The only heart attack”: San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 3, 1964.
Lorber told Chamberlain: Chamberlain, Wilt, 160.
“It’s a little strange”: San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 14, 1964.
Chamberlain, Mieuli thought: San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 24, 1964.
For his part, Hannum worried: San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 15, 1964.
Chamberlain was greeted: Auth. int. of Shirley Figgins, Franklin Mieuli’s assistant.
“What’s this piece”: “I’ve Barely Begun to Fight,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 18, 1968.
“At times”: San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 17, 1964.
“playboy bachelor”: “The World at His Fingertips,” Sport, Nov. 1965.
recognized two trends: San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 28, 1964.
“I now believe”: Branch, Pillar, 404.
he took the passage: Chamberlain, Wilt, 162.
Some people, including Bob Feerick: San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 16, 1964.
“Boston plays all over you”: New York Post, Dec. 17, 1964.
“the Late, Late Show”: San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 11, 1964.
Chamberlain didn’t think: New York Post, Dec. 16, 1964.
“Poor Wilt”: Sullivan, Wilt Chamberlain, 160.
“I’ve heard enough”: Fitzgerald, Championship, 146.
McSweeney was wrong: “The Master’s Touch,” Sports Illustrated, April 5, 1965.
“You’ll have to put”: “The Winning Ways of Red Auerbach,” Sport, March 1965.
The day after the Warriors: San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 18, 1964.
Chamberlain had begun hassling: Chamberlain, Wilt, 164.
some of the investors: San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 6, 1965.
Mieuli hoped to keep: San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 24, 1964.
By that point, Mieuli: Auth. int. of Michael Richman.
Richman was a gregarious: Auth. ints. of Michael Richman, Harvey Pollack, and Al Domenico; also Lynch, Season, 1–14.
“He can do”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14, 1965.
Hannum felt as anxious: San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 6, 1965.
Thurmond was so discouraged: “Old Days and Changed Ways,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 25, 1968.
As the all-star game: San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 15, 1965.
He urged the city’s blacks: Branch, Pillar, 559.
“I don’t want you”: Halberstam, October, 55.
voted to boycott: San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 12, 1965.
“Are you sure”: The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jan. 15, 1965.
Chamberlain had been entitled: New York Post, Jan. 14, 1965.
Richman was not: Auth. int. of Michael Richman.
“I’m not leaving St. Louis”: Chamberlain, Wilt, 164; “Old Days and Changed Ways,” Sports Illustrated, Nov. 25, 1968.
The Lakers’ Bob Short: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 14, 1965.
He had hoped Ned Irish: New York Post, Jan. 14, 1965.
“Chamberlain’s been traded!”: New York Herald-Tribune, Jan. 15, 1965.
he thought he could fit them: San Francisco Examiner, Jan. 14, 1965.
“What would it take”: New York Post, Jan. 14, 1965.
“At midpoint, the pro-basketball”: “Another Big Bluff by Big Wilt,” Sports Illustrated, Jan. 25, 1965.
“one of the weirdest”: “The Startling Change in Wilt Chamberlain,” Sport, March 1967.
“The San Francisco Warriors”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 15, 1965.