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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. -- Trailing by a goal at halftime, Oscar Pareja made a request of his team. "We were behind by a goal and hadnt played badly," the Colorado Rapids coach said. "We needed to take more control of the tempo." The Rapids did just that. Jaime Castrillon scored the tying goal in the 70th minute and the Colorado Rapids extended their unbeaten streak to seven games with a 2-2 draw with Real Salt Lake on Saturday. "I am proud of the team for the way they responded," Pareja said. "The boys showed what they are made of in the second half." Castrillons goal off a header was his first of the season. Deshorn Brown added a goal for Colorado (9-7-8). The Rapids are 4-0-3 in their past seven games after a 0-4-1 stretch. Midfielder Atiba Harris left in the first half with a right quad injury. The Rapids were already without Hendry Thomas, who served the first of a two-game suspension after receiving a second yellow card in last weeks game with Los Angeles. The game was halted for an hour and two minutes in the first half due to lightening in the area. Several downpours of rain made for difficult field conditions. "The weather really didnt bother us," Brown said. "We were concentrating so much on getting the three points." Alvero Saborio and Ned Grabavoy scored goals for Real Salt Lake (11-7-5). Real Salt Lake maintained a three-point lead over Colorado for first place in the Western Conference. "That was the most critical part of the game," Real Salt Lake Robbie Findley said. "We would have liked to have come out of here with three points, but we are glad we came out of this with a point." Real Salt Lake scored a minute and 20 seconds into the game when former Rapids player Kyle Beckerman found Grabavoy in front of the left post. Grabavoy easily beat Clint Irwin for his fifth goal of the season. Brown got the equalizer for the Rapids in the ninth minute with his sixth goal. Brown outmuscled Nat Borchers for the ball inside the scoring zone and lofted a kick over goalkeeper Nick Rimando into the net. Findley drew a penalty kick when was hauled down by Colorado defender Drew Moor in the 21st minute. The kick was delayed when play was halted due to lightening in the area. When play was resumed, Saborio converted the penalty kick in the 21st minute. Irwin had no chance on the ball that whistled past his right hand. Irwin showed his frustration by shoving Saborio to the ground after the goal, earning a yellow card. Rain continued to fall at a steady rate throughout the second half. Rimando made two saves on shots in the 53rd minute. The second was made on Castrillon with Rimando on his knees. Colorado went on the offensive for the winning goal. Castrillon got behind the Real Salt Lake defence and Christopher Klute found him with a cross. Castrillon sent a header past Rimando. 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One fan even hung on a rim as the players hustled past outstretched arms to the locker room.The Sixers popped champagne against the backdrop of a fan-made 1967 NBA champions poster tacked to the wall.The Celtics dynasty -- for a year, at least -- was dead.Long live the Sixers.Chamberlain, the agile and dominant center of his era, put an end to the hooting and hollering and silenced the Eastern Division championship revelry with a brief speech: Philadelphia still had one more goal to achieve.The room got very quiet, Sixers great Billy Cunningham said.Chamberlains big point was this -- the Sixers didnt win 68 games and knock off the hated Celtics just to squander their shot at an NBA championship. The Sixers would have to win it all to truly stamp themselves as one of the NBAs all-team great teams.Hal Greer, Chet Walker and Wali Jones joined Cunningham and Chamberlain to lead the Sixers to a six-game series clinch over the San Francisco Warriors and win the NBA championship.The Sixers (68-13) were the top team in `67, and considered by many the best NBA team in history. The Sixers were tabbed the greatest team of all time in 1980 during the NBAs 35th anniversary celebration.That honor came before Larry and Magic. Michael and LeBron. Kobe and Duncan.There are a lot of historical points that people dont know now because people dont know any basketball before Bird and Magic, Jones said. I tell them about a lot of people from that times and our team in our era, a lot of people dont know.After 40 years, we were forgotten. Nobody said, `who was the greatest team in the NBA? and mentioned us.They havent been forgotten in Philly.The Sixers turned this season into a year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of that championship team. The Sixers have worn throwback jerseys inspired by the 1966-67 road uniforms, have the year stamped on a commemorative center court logo at select games and designed sculptures for Chamberlain, Cunningham and Greer. The Sixers will honor seven living players from the team at halftime of Saturday nights game against, yup, Boston.Its good to remembered, Jones said.What perhaps isnt remembered as easily from the black-and-white era was the climb the Sixers made just to beat Boston. The Celtics, winners of nine of 10 NBA titles in the 1960s, had eliminated the Sixers in the Division (now conference) finals in 1965 and 1966. Winning a championship seemed almost like it held second place on the season list of goals behind beating the Celtics in the postseason.Trying to spark a change, the Sixers replaced coach Dolph Schayes with Alex Hannum. Hannum had coached the organization in its previous incarnation as the Syracuse Nationals and was familiar with most of the roster.He just brought immediate respect to the coaching position, Cunningham said.dddddddddddd He just had a presence. There was a certain personality with him that gave players a great deal of respect for his decision making.Hannum was helped by coaching a team loaded with talent: Chamberlain, Cunningham, Greer and Walker are all in the Hall of Fame. With so much star power, Chamberlain morphed from something of a lone wolf on offense to a prominent cog on a team where it was no longer necessary for The Stilt to try and carry the Sixers on his own.The Sixers started 52-8 and had just one three-game losing streak all season.If Chamberlain could have shot foul shots, we would have won 70 games, easily, Cunningham said with a laugh.But five of their losses were against Bill Russell, Sam Jones, John Havlicek and the Celtics. The road to the title would again go through Boston. This time, the Sixers were ready.Philly beat Oscar Robertson and the Cincinnati Royals in four games to reach the East finals. The Sixers won the first three games and lost Game 4 in Boston. The Philly fans were restless to finish the job at home and a banner was raised at the Convention Center that read No. 4 Now!Pennsylvania governor Raymond Shafer watched Game 5 with general manager Jack Ramsay and owner Irv Koslof in nervous anticipation of what was ahead. Five Sixers scored at least 21 points and they beat the Celtics 140-116 to set off a celebration.I really felt as though this was the greatest Celtics team, so beating this team I think helped to make up for the other losses we had over the years, Chamberlain, who died in 1999, said after the series.Beating Boston gave the Sixers a championship feeling.It meant so much to beat Boston because the dynasty was just dominating, Jones said. People dont understand the importance in the NBA to stop that dynasty and have some other team sneak in there.The finals seemed a mere formality and the Sixers topped Nate Thurmond, Rick Barry and the Warriors in six games.The Sixers were mobbed by fans at the airport and greeted by a sign that read, Boston bled, now the Warriors are dead.Chamberlain had the team autograph the game ball and gave the basketball to Michael Richman, who handled payroll, and whose father Ike had owned the team and helped bring the franchise to Philly. Ike Richman died of a heart attack in 1965 at a 76ers-Celtics game.When Wilt got off the plane, he flipped me the ball and said, `this is for your mother, the 75-year-old Richman said.The championship ball is still with the Richman family.The Sixers never blossomed into a dynasty and wouldnt win a championship again until Cunningham coached them to one in 1983.Theyve had great teams, Jones said. But we were the greatest.---This story has been corrected to show that Ike Richman died in 1965, not 1966. ' ' '