The modern NBA – both as a competitive sports league and as an entertainment company – owes a lot of its existence to the one-time rebel league.
That team was so deep that John Havlicek and Lenny Wilkens were relegated to alternates and four players would go on to become NBA Rookies of the Year: Robertson in 1961, Bellamy in 1962, Dischinger ...
BOSTON (AP)Sam Jones remembers the NBA landscape in the 1960s being only marginally different from what he had experienced growing up in America’s segregated South. ”There was a quota for Blacks when ...