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The All-Time Playoff MVP? Elgin Baylor?

May 13, 2010 – 7:03 am

Elgin Baylor never won an NBA championship ring.
So how could you even consider him the All-Time MVP of the NBA Playoffs?
Well, you have to at least consider Baylor among the nominees along with Boston’s great Bill Russell (the centerpiece of 11 championship teams), Chicago’s Michael Jordan, and a select few others. By the way, the [...]

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West Became A Laker 50 Years Ago This Week

April 13, 2010 – 5:19 am

An excerpt from my book, Jerry West, The Life And Legend Of A Basketball Icon, recently released by ESPN Books.
It was 50 years ago this month, in April of 1960, that Jerry West was drafted by the Minneapolis Lakers. The draft wasn’t a big deal back then. Al Attles, who would be taken in the [...]

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