Gary Pomerantz
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Gary Pomerantz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he just scored 28 points in the third quarter. And the Knicks are just going through the motions. It's a 10, 15, 20-point lead the Warriors have.
Well, Joe was the Kennedy liberal from Northwestern.
He was Wilt's backup. Now think about it. When you're the backup to a player who never comes out of the game, you don't play very much. But he observed a lot, and he was a very...
keen observer joe also was into conspiracy theories and joe said wait a minute why did this tape just appear 28 years later and joe said he questioned whether bill campbell had had recreated it right i don't think campbell was there but you know what that's so what are you saying if i get a tape what are you saying about the tape i think you get the last few minutes that's all i think i think it's only the last quarter
Bill Campbell was there. Bill Campbell and I spoke, and he talked about dreading going to Hershey, you know, for game 75 of an 80-game season.
It's a long drive, and it sure would be nice to be playing at home in Philadelphia.
But he remembered vividly the game and the details.
This is played in an arena that's built for a hockey, the hockey team, the Hershey Bears. There's not, during this game, a big screen where it says, number 13, big fella. How many shots attempted, made, free throws attempted, made, assists, et cetera. There's just a cold, metallic, boxy scoreboard up in the netherland of this place that says, you know, Philadelphia, New York.
Even the people who are watching the game don't have context.
Daryl was a second-year player, 6'10", left-handed, and he was primarily a defender. At times, a rough defender, he would become known as the axe for axing shooters' arms.
And one of the things that was so interesting, he was then working in Eugene, Oregon at the U.S. Basketball Academy, a training ground. And we walked by an open court and I said, Daryl, could you come here for a second? I stood in the middle of the lane. I said, show me how you defended Wilt that night. Wilt, Imhoff said, would arch his back. And it was like a tree.
And Daryl's behind him down low. He said it was like a tree was going to fall down on me. I said, so what would you do? And he said, I did this. And he took the point of his elbow and put it in my rhomboids right between the shoulder blades. And Daryl could still inflict some pain all these years later.
But he said he would position himself behind Wilt when Wilt's down on the offensive left side, down by where we would now see the block. The block didn't exist then. And he would put his knee into Wilt's, the back of his thigh to collapse his leg. He would put his foot inside of Wilt's left foot to keep him from turning in. Darryl played only 20 minutes and fouled out.
He was in and out of the game, so he played some in the second half. Six fouls covering Wilt. The tallest, next tallest player the Knicks had was 6'8 rookie Cleveland Buckner. 6'8", they said 210 pounds. Uh-uh. He's probably 185, 190. He was a stick. He scored 33 points that night, too, I might add. It was a career night for him. What a night to have a career night.
Seven and a half minutes are left when he scores. And Harvey Pollack, the statistician, he passes over a sheet of paper to the PA announcer, the great Dave Zinkoff. Zinkoff then announces, Wilt Chamberlain has just set a new record for most points in a game. He has 79 points, breaking his 78 points scored in a three-overtime game earlier that season.
And while he's announcing that, Wilt makes shooting underhanded, two more free throws to go to 80 and 81.
Granny style. He looked ridiculous doing it because he's so big. He would squat down low. His knees would flare out. He looked like an adult trying to sit in a kindergartner's chair.
He just thought they loved Wilt. And, you know, that at one point they called a foul against Imhoff that Imhoff did not think was a foul.
And the game took on, you know, Darrell would call it a farce. It was a farce.
With seven and a half minutes to play and everybody realizing now what the stakes were, The Knicks started not quite stalling, but sort of. A couple extra passes, then they start running a weave down court, taking the ball in 94 feet from the basket. The Warriors start committing fouls of the Knicks to get the ball back quicker, to get the ball to Will.
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