The fact that Stokes played so brilliantly on a club that turned out to be the losingest club in the eight-team NBA circuit last season is just more of a tribute to his ability and hustle.
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The Short Player is Doomed!
The day is not far off when the small man will be practically an unknown quantity in basketball. Day by day, the importance of the big man is becoming stronger
Eddie Gottlieb: The Man With a Thousand Faces, 1949
There’s no such thing with Gotty as taking a game in stride. He’s about as comfortable and acrobatic during a game as a worm on a hot griddle, grimacing and writhing about as if in the grip of death’s throes.
Remembering Maurice Stokes
Auerbach said that, “Stokes is no rookie. He was ready for the league when he was in college. Nothing’ll stop him.”
Lebron, Kobe, KG, Moses . . . and Bones Graboski?
Meet the first prep-to-pro in NBA history.
Remembering the Early NBA
It was all fun, sensational fun. Those were the days when we felt that everything we did was great.
Good . . . Like Nedick’s!
The function of a sports broadcaster is to take the listener out of his chair alongside his radio and place him in the arena alongside the broadcaster. The listener must see verbally what the broadcaster sees visually.
Quality Transcends Time
Had he lived in another era, Buddy Jeannette would have been a household name.
Pro Basketball Needs a Bill of Rights
No one has a bigger stake in the future of the National Basketball Association than the players.
NBA Players Vote to Unionize
Bob Cousy racked up thousands of assists during his Hall-of-Fame career with the Boston Celtics. He called it “spreading the sugar,” and the internet is filled with grainy, black-and-white film clips of Boston’s original basketball leprechaun dishing out nifty, no-look passes behind his back and, more often, sprinkled magically delicious over his shoulder.
From Way Downtown 