By Rachel Puglia
Elm Staff Writer
Game 7 of the 1957 NBA championship series between the Boston Celtics and the Milwaukee Hawks was played on Saturday, April 13. This was one of the most memorable games in the history of the National Basketball Association.
Bob Pettit, of the Hawks, scored a pair of free throws in the closing seconds to send the game into overtime. With only a few seconds left on the clock in the first extra period, Jack Coleman (from the Hawks again) scored a basket and forced the game into a second overtime. Boston forward Jim Loscutoff sank a free throw in the final seconds, and when Pettit’s buzzer-beater bounced off the rim the Celtics had a 125-123 win as well as the franchise’s first championship.
April 14, 1925, was the first time that WGN Radio broadcasted a regular season Chicago Cubs game. Quin Ryan was working that microphone that day and he announced the game while Chicago defeated Pittsburgh in an 8-2 win.
April 16, 1996, marked the day The Chicago Bulls bettered the 1971-72 Lakers’ NBA record of 69 victories in one season with an 86-80 defeat of Milwaukee. The Bulls would finish the season 72-10, the best single-season record in NBA history.