The Washington Bullets, champions of the National Basketball Association (NBA) this past season, will be leaving for Israel Sept. 4 for a one-week visit as guests of their owner, Abe Pollin. Pollin is rewarding his players for their gutsy play during the course of the playoffs which resulted in their going all the way to the top.
The bulk of the team, including such stars as Elvin Hayes, Wes Unseld, Mitch Kupchak, Kevin Grevey, Robert Dandridge, Tom Henderson, and Larry Wright, with their wives, will leave for the Holy Land on the night of Sept. 4. In addition, several prominent guests, including Commissioner Lawrence O’Brien of the NBA and Ed Gottlieb, one of the founders of the major league basketball circuit, have been extended invitations by Pollin to accompany the Bullets on their trip, as his personal guests.
The trip planned calls for one game to be played by the Bullets against a top quintet in Israel, the Maccabi Club of Tel Aviv. This contest is slated to take place on the night of Sept. 7 at the Sports Arena in Yad Eliyahu, Tel Aviv. It is anticipated that a prominent NBA player from an opposing team in the pro-circuit will be taken along to help augment the obviously out-manned Maccabi five in the one game scheduled between these two teams.
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