History of Professional Basketball
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NOTE: This is a guest article from Friend of the Program Paul Putz who has been around these parts before. Dr. Putz is a historian and serves as Assistant Director of the Faith & Sports Institute at Baylor University. Follow him on Twitter @p_emory.
Hello folks,
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History Well, we’ve arrived at one of the highlights of my childhood. When the NBA season and school year were over, the dog days of July were filled with many lazy summer days watching way too much MTV. Fortunately in the early 1990s, MTV had hit a sweet spot of showing music videos with music-adjacent programming. That balance would…
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History Mention the 1961-62 NBA season and Wilt Chamberlain probably comes to mind. He averaged 50.4 PPG. Played 48.5 minutes per game. Just an overall menace to the league, which was simply magical that year.
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History
This qualifies as one of the 72 “Greatest” Moments in NBA History “I remember St. Louis, of course, for a punch I did throw,” Red Auerbach wrote in 1966. “It is a punch I still regret.” That punch was thrown in the 1957 NBA Finals, as Auerbach’s Boston Celtics played the Hawks. The owner of the Hawks, Ben Kerner, was the victim of Red’s temper.
