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The Lakers, some said, could never lose with Chamberlain, - 03.24.69 - SI Vault

Forum Blue And Gold found this 9/5/2008 on vault.sportsillustrated.cnn.com

In the beginning (of the present season) Jack Kent Cooke created the new super Lakers by paying something like three or four trillion dollars for Wilt Chamberlain , big super center. And Jack Kent Cooke said, "Let there be a new NBA basketball champion ensconced in my fabulous new Fabulous Forum." And after Jack Kent Cooke and the Los Angeles sportswriters had contemplated Chamberlain and his ...