NBA Playoffs: 1st Round Preview

The 1978 Portland Trail Blazers were on top of the world. They were coming off a surprise championship run in 1977 and validating that run by dominating most of the ’78 regular season. Then, in the blink of an eye, the cruelty of sports showed its hand in a dramatic way. An injury not only […]

1980 Georgetown basketball was coming. John Thompson, after inheriting a disaster situation in 1973, had reached multiple NCAA Tournaments in an era when the size of the bracket ranged from just 25 to 40 teams. The Hoyas were consistently posting winning seasons. In 1980, the first year of the new Big East Conference, Georgetown took […]

The 1978 Milwaukee Bucks were in rebuilding mode. The franchise won an NBA title in 1971 and returned to the Finals in 1974 behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. But Kareem was discontented in Milwaukee and the organization traded him to the Los Angeles Lakers. After a brief stretch in the wilderness, Don Nelson was hired as head […]

The Spurs had been one of the American Basketball Association (ABA)’s more successful franchises in the 1970s, covering a move from Dallas to San Antonio and leading to their inclusion as one of the four teams absorbed into the NBA in the merger of 1977. The Spurs immediately showed they were for real by making […]