1960's Basketball Research Paper

Sweat drips down basketball players faces as they run across the court, the basketball dribbling between each of their hands as they get ready to score. Basketball is a very well known sport, even in the 1960’s! It became a huge hit in the 60’s causing a lot of memorable stuff to happen. Basketball is very well known for its hand to hand coordination, especially with the dribbling and the passing, you have to know how to do those to make a good player. So, in the 1960’s basketball became a hit to happen when NBA PLayers had made history causing basketball to become a very popular sport.

Basketball has been a huge hit since the 1960’s and since then NBA History has been made as amazing basketball players continued to get better and better. “Just like Wilt Chamberlain who set the single-game recording by tallying 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors.” (bleacherreport.com). Also, “Wilt Chamberlain, “Wilt the Stilt” was heads and shoulders above everyone else in the NBA during the 1960’s in terms of both height (7’1”) and play.” (bleacherreport.com). This shows that Wilt

Like in, “1963: Bob Cousy and the Celtics were called "too old," to win their fifth straight title, but the Houdini of the Hardwood proved them wrong in his final game.” (www.nba.com). Bob Cousy, one of the greatest passers and playmakers in NBA history, was flashy before flashy was cool. (www.nba.com). Bob always proved them wrong and he was never too old! Also, “The Baltimore Bullets were the victims of the greatest single-man assault in playoff history when Lakers' guard Jerry West averaged more than 46 points a game over six games of their Western Division Finals series.” (www.nba.com). Jerry also was the third player in league history to reach 25,000 points. Jerry West held some pretty good titles in the NBA History. Basketball has been a hit throughout the years with basketball players, NBA History and, NBA