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Hal Greer: What Wilt Means to the 76ers, 1966

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Mar 09, 2022
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[This article was published in the magazine Pro Basketball Illustrated, 1965-66. It’s supposedly a verbatim transcript of Hal Greer’s comments to writer Ernie Salvatore about Wilt and the 76ers. Fat chance. Salvatore clearly did quite a bit of smoothing out of Greer’s syntax to improve readability. People just don’t talk in such flawless complete senten…

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