Lots of Basketball- Part 1

Today we are beginning a three day look at record setting basketball games. I would be very easy for me to write about baseball everyday however, I want to reach fans of all sports.
Our look at basketball begins with a quick look at the December 12, 1958 game between the Boston Celtics and the Cincinnati Royals at the Boston Garden. The Celtics won the game 125-115 in overtime. One of the keys to this game was the fact that future Hall of Famer Bill Russell had 17 rebounds in one quarter. I could have just as easily written about the Southern Association shift of the Little Rock, Arkansas Franchise to Shreveport, Louisiana that happened in baseball on that same day.
We will continue our look at basketball with a look at the December 12, 1967 game played at New Yorks' Madison Square Garden between the New York Knicks and the Saint Louis Hawks. The visiting Hawks scored a 145-142 win over the home team, thats a lot of scoring for one game.
We now move on to the December 12, 1985 game played at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland between the Washington Bullets and the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bullets scored a 110-108 overtime victory. The Bullets Manute Bol, who only recently passed away, had 11 blocked shots in one half, 8 of those coming in one quarter.
The next game we are looking at, on the surface did not look like a game worth mentioning in this forum. The Dallas Mavericks 112-97 win over the Los Angeles Lakers at the Great Western Forum does not look like much. When one sees that the Mavericks scored their win in overtime, you can then see that their 23 points in the overtime period was very much the key in this game.
The National Basketball Association does not have the monopoly on the interesting games worth mentioning in this forum. On December 12, 2002 the Continental Basketball Association got into the act. At the Genesis Convention Center in Gary, Indiana the Grand Rapids Hoops beat the Gary Steelheads by a score of 148-95. Given the opportunity to look at minor league basketball a lot closer I can find many more games like this one.
Tomorrow the second part of record games in basketball. Maybe someday we can put together a minor league basketball recordbook at least single games.