ADaily News New York, New York Tuesday, July 18, 1972 - Page 56
HOOPla! Jo Jo White, sensational Celtic guard, calls his new three-year contract “surprising.” Surprisingly good or surprisingly bad? “If it was bad, do you think I'd have signed?” he asks…The only unsigned veteran Knick is Bill Bradley, vacationing in Greece. President Ned Irish says, “I expect him to play one more year.” …Like most of us, Dick Barnett has been an observer of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky chess match. However, Barnett, an accomplished chess player, takes a sympathetic view of Fischer. “I just hope his attitude and behavior doesn't alienate too many people,” the Knick guard says. “I'd like to see him win, so that chess will get the recognition it deserves, not as an intellectual game, but because there's a lot in it for every day people. I hesitate to comment on Fischer's behavior without having been there, but people are making it an international crisis and it's not that comprehensive in scope.” ([Except to the Soviet Union.]) Barnett, incidentally, recently received his masters degree from NYU in Urban Public Policies and hopes to earn his doctorate next summer.
