“The NBA exists on the money it gets from television and from the expansion teams,” says Tedd Munchak, the interim commissioner of the ABA.
Tag Archives: 1970s NBA
Connie Hawkins’ First Spin Around the NBA, 1969
Connie Hawkins, it’s turning out, is a lot of things to a lot of people. To Phoenix fans—Sensational: “He could bank a shot off a piece of Kleenex.”
The Walt Frazier Style, 1971
Madison Square Garden is probably the only basketball arena in the country where, when the home team falls behind in the fourth quarter, a chant begins in the lower tiers and swells until it sweeps the arena: “Dee-fense! (clap, clap), Dee-fense! (clap, clap) Dee-fense! (clap, clap).”
Pistol Pete’s Last Shot
Now Maravich arrives at the moment Bird ascends. A star is born; a star descends.
‘Nobody Can Guard Me! I’m Unstoppable!’ Lloyd Free
“The only reason I got a reputation as a gunner is that I came from a small school, and guys from small schools aren’t supposed to shoot like that,”
From Way Downtown 