They began even before the summer ended; they dribbled their way all through the winter, and last week, as spring came north once more, they were still at it. The oversized pros of the National Basketball Association were playing overtime,as they went through the motions of a championship playoff that may well run on almost till Easter. Months ago, the long schedule made clear that the Boston Celtics are easily the class of the league (TIME, Dec. 22), the best at the game's swift art of dunking baskets while elbows dig and feet flail and the referee's whistle skirls its endless...
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