The New York Knicks center made his next attempt, too, his final basket of the night, before Frazier finished off the Lakers with his 36 points, 19 assists and five steals. For good reason, that night isn’t remembered as Frazier’s finest nearly as much as it’s remembered as Willis Reed’s badge of courage. “When Willis was playing,” Gale said, “you’d have to have two broken legs not to go out there. You did your job, and you didn’t take time off for anything. Willis came from humble beginnings, so he knew what it took to make a dollar and to
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