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Lucas-Robertson or Baylor-West? The Coaches Choose, 1964
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Lucas-Robertson or Baylor-West? The Coaches Choose, 1964

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Jul 09, 2021
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[Which tandem would you take? The Lakers' Elgin Baylor and Jerry West? Or, Cincinnati's Jerry Lucas and Oscar Robertson? That’s not a question that gets bandied about today among basketball junkies and historians. Time hasn’t remembered Lucas quite as fondly as the other three. But in 1964, that question made for some heated barbershop talk. Lucas had b…

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