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    55 years ago today-Chet Walker and the OJ mystery

    3/17/1960-55 years ago today

    Chicago Tribune
    http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1960/03/18/page/51/article/bradley-gets-drug-scare-wins-82-71
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    Walker felt ill after drinking the mysterious OJ given to him by the hotel 'bellhop'. As a result, Chet was only able to play 23 minutes that evening vs St Bonnies...and scored 27 pts in the Braves 82-71 win

    Two nights later in the NIT Championship game, a still ill Walker was limited to 9 pts. But Mack Herndon and Mike Owen led the Braves to the title over Providence 88-72

    The Wizard of Odds
    https://books.google.com/books?id=Ip9oRcm8iOMC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=chet+walker+orange+juice&source=bl&ots=otMjJYHznB&sig=qdDZnYdGZ_cg-v-SaDZx69gtnkU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OJMIVdGpOfW_sQS15ICYDQ&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=chet%20walker%20orange%20juice&f=false
    In The Wizard of Odds, renowned and best-selling basketball writer Charley Rosen brings us for the first time the full life story of Jack Molinas, one of the greatest basketball players of his era, a man whose gambling addiction and hubris caused his ultimate demise. Drawing on numerous, previously unavailable first-person accounts, including Jack Molinas’s own journal and trial transcripts, Rosen presents the true saga of a man who perhaps better than anyone around him understood the weaknesses of the system in which he lived—so much so that he convinced himself that he could manipulate that system to his advantage with total impunity, in a life’s journey that took him from NBA play to the Mafia and the pornographic film industry, and to an ultimate tragic destiny.
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    interesting story - and we have discussed it before....
    BradleyFans.com Forums
    http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23231


    in his book - the way Chet described the incident - I came away wondering if he even seems to hold a little grudge against Bradley for the poisoning - as if maybe someone at BU leaked the hotel room # in order to alter the betting point spread...or that maybe BU didn't support his side of the story.
    there was even more in a separate book that amplified this...
    Season of the 76ers
    https://books.google.com/books?id=W8ZAnT8gd-8C&pg=PT40&lpg=PT40&dq=chet+walker+hotel+orange+juice+new+york&source=bl&ots=NrsV-vk2-T&sig=eZOtDxJOO680hhOPzg17ttfsSME&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DpwIVfKZLpP3yQTjnICQDw&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=chet%20walker%20hotel%20orange%20juice%20new%20york&f=false
    Season of the 76ers: The Story of Wilt Chamberlain and the 1967 NBA Champion Philadelphia 76ers, chronicles the unprecedented, record-setting championship journey of the team that finally stopped the Boston Celtics and became the new kings of the NBA. Destroying a dynasty.That was the mission of Wilt Chamberlain and 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers.For eight straight years, the Boston Celtics had dominated the National Basketball Association. Each and every season during that stretch, a new NBA championship flag was hoisted to the top of the hallowed Boston Garden. No team had been able to stop them. Nobody thought any team could or would.Sportswriter Wayne Lynch tells the story of the legendary Chamberlain's personal triumph over Boston and their leader, Bill Russell, arch rivals who had annually thwarted Chamberlain's championship dreams and had left him branded a loser.But Chamberlain couldn't defeat the Celtics alone. He was reunited with fiery and focused Coach Alex Hannum, the only NBA coach ever to have beaten Boston for the championship. He was surrounded by the best supporting cast of his career: Hal Greer and Chet Walker, two talented offensive stars transplanted from a bygone NBA franchise; Luke Jackson, the league's first true power forward; Billy Cunningham, a sixth man loaded with instant energy and offense; Wally Jones and Larry Costello, a pair of basketball reclamation projects; and, Matty Guokas and Bill Melchionni, a couple of hometown rookies.Chamberlain remade his game, forsaking his own incredible scoring prowess in favor of handing out assists to teammates. In turn, the 76ers remade basketball history, rocketing to an unmatched 46-4 record out of the gate and not stopping until they reached 68-13, a regular season mark never previously achieved in NBA history--or even imagined back then.The book gives fans a fascinating, month-by-month look at the team's amazing season, a season that also saw Chamberlain pursued by both a rival basketball league and the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. It also recounts in vivid, play-by-play detail one of the most historic playoff series in the annals of the NBA.The 76ers battled the Celtics again in a much-anticipated post-season confrontation. But this time the results would be different. Amid chants of "Boston is dead" from the long-suffering, Celtics-hating fans at Philadelphia's Convention Hall, the 76ers won the series quickly and decisively. They went on to defeat sharp-shooting Rick Barry and the San Francisco Warriors for the NBA title.Packed with pictures, playoff box scores, and reproductions of the 76ers' championship yearbook, this book is not only the biography of a great team, it is a fun- and fact-filled sports collectible.

    Daytona Beach Morning Journal - Google News Archive Search
    https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1873&dat=19600318&id=KQUqAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jcwEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2704,3186426&hl=en

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