And in that year's
ABA championship series against Denver, he put together five consecutive games the likes of which no one had ever seen: 45 points, 12 rebounds; 48 points, 14 rebounds; 31 points, 10 rebounds; 34 points, 15 rebounds; 31 points, 19 rebounds.
That spring, nobody outside of New York or Denver (except subscribers to a fledgling cable - TV service called Home Box Office) saw, during one
ABA championship series, the greatest individual performance by a basketball player at any level anywhere — ABA, NBA, BAA or UCLA.