Rick Barry – From Way Downtown

Jerry Sloan: The Game I’ll Never Forget, 1975

After that season, that group of Bulls never did much. We were a team at the end of the road; age and injuries then tore us apart.

Jon Barry: Growing Up Barry, 1996

Having three basketball-playing brothers kept Barry from being hardened. He was never far from a conversation or a two-on-two. Being the sons of Rick Barry united the four boys.

Guy Rodgers: Mr. Excitement, 1968

Somehow Rodgers seems to have lost none of his speed even at age 32 and credits his continual physical activity for it. “I feel as though I could play quite a bit of ball with the kids.”

Ode to Sonny Dove, 1983

The pro game never was his thing. His career was adequate, but he never fooled himself. He knew what he wanted to do with his life, and he was determined to develop those skills in the same fashion that he developed his skills on the court during teenaged summers

Curtis Rowe: It’s a New Game Every Night, 1975

That “something more” that Rowe possesses is his adaptability, his willingness to play both ends of the floor, and his sense of perspective, both on and off the court.

Golden State: That Championship Season, 1975

I never met a person with the integrity of Franklin Mieuli. When I die, I want it to say on my tombstone: ‘Frankin, I owe you one.’”

Golden State Warriors: We Are The Champions, 1975

The Warriors were not favored to win. Little, if any attention was given to the club’s determination and progression of improvement.

Cazzie Russell: Trading Places, 1972

Inevitably, Russell is compared to the Warriors’ former Wonder Boy, Rick Barry, which is unfair to Cazzie. He is not the offensive player that Barry was with the Warriors, but he does have some of the same characteristics.

Lou Carnesecca: Now Playing at the Island Garden, 1971

The car pulls into the driveway, and the inner tension reaches a peak. Defeat is too fresh in Carnesecca’s mind for it not to show on his face.

Balls of Confusion: The First ABA Game, 1967

To the best of my knowledge, both sides of the NBA-ABA War have never been woven together and retold in one book. Neither would it ever get done in fine detail, unless I went back into my cabinet and started relistening to the tapes, researching their claims, and writing another book.