1.
SV GAME IN PROGRESS WITH LAKERS (IN LIGHT SHIRTS) SCORING
0.05

2.
GV CROWD
0.06

3.
SV LAKERS IN POSSESSION GOOD PASSING CULMINATING IN ROGERSON SCORING FOR LAKERS
0.17

4.
GV SCOREBOARD LAKERS 26 HAWKS 27
0.21

5.
SV PLAY WITH LEW HUDSON SCORING FROM ATLANTA
0.25

6.
GV CROWD
0.27

7.
SV JOE COGWELL (ATLANTA) ATTEMPTS TO NET - BALL MISSES, BALL BOUNCES
0.38

8.
SV ACTION WITH ATLANTA SCORE AGAIN
0.41

9.
GV CROWD
0.45

10.
SV BAYLOR (LAKERS) NETS BALL
0.49

11.
GV CROWD APPLAUDS
0.49

12.
SV PLAY WITH DAVIS (ATLANTA) SCORING
0.57

13.
SV SCOREBOARD LAKERS 106 - HAWKS 118
1.04



Initials JH/N/JF/BJ


SPORT: BASKETBALL
EDITORS: PLEASE NOTE THIS FILM HAS NATURAL SOUND THROUGHOUT

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Background: THE LOS ANGELES LAKERS, IN LIGHT SHIRTS, WENT DOWN AFTER THE EARLY STAGES TO THE ATLANTA HAWKS ON WEDNESDAY (25 FEBRUARY) IN A LOS ANGELES BASKETBALL GAME. THE LAKERS, AHEAD WITH HAP HURSTON'S 24-POINT-LEAD, ONLY MADE THEIR EFFORTS IN THE EARLY PART OF THE CONTEST.

DURING THE FIRST PERIOD, THE LAKERS BUILT UP THEIR SCORE AS THE BALL WENT TO JOHNNY EGAN WHO GAVE TO RICK ROGERSON FOR TWO POINTS FROM UNDERNEATH, DURING THE MATCH, ROGERSON SCORED 18 FOR LOS ANGELES.

AFTER THE FIRST PERIOD, WITH THE HAWKS AHEAD BY ONE, 27 TO 26, ATLANTA PULLED AWAY. LEW HUDSON DROVE IN FOR A BASKET AND CAME UP WITH 20 POINTS AS THE HAWKS MOVED UP TO A 13-POINT HALF-TIME LEAD.

HIGH-POINT MAN FOR ATLANTA WAS JOE COGWELL WHO REBOUNDED HIS OWN SHOT FOR TWO OF HIS TOTAL OF 38 POINTS.

AS THE HAWKS KEPT ADDING TO THEIR SCORE, BAYLOR TRIED TO COUNTER FOR THE LAKERS, HITTING FROM THE TOP OF THE CIRCLE. HE SCORED 20 POINTS DURING THE CONTEST BUT THE HAWKS BUILT UP A 22 POINT LEAD TO COAST HOME TO VICTORY. JIM DAVIS HIT ONE OF THE FINISHERS SCORING 16 AS ATLANTA BEAT LOS ANGELES 118 TO 106.

THE WIN UPPED THE HAWKS FIRST-PLACE LEAD IN THE WEST TO 3 GAMES.