NBA Playoffs: 2nd Round Wraps

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 […]

Georgetown was a program on the rise. John Thompson came to Washington D.C. in 1973, inheriting a team coming off a three-win season and no NCAA Tournament appearances in the postwar era. Thompson got them into what was then a 25-team NCAA field by 1975 and did it again in 1976. Over the next two […]

The 1978 Philadelphia 76ers were looking to take the final step. After acquiring Julius “Dr. J’ Erving in 1977, the Sixers reached the NBA Finals and won the first two games. Losing the next four left a sour taste in their mouth. After a tumultuous start to the ’78 season, Philadelphia reached the playoffs in […]

The Washington Bullets had made two recent trips to the NBA Finals, in 1971 and 1975 respectively. But they hadn’t yet won a title–in fact, they hadn’t even won a game in the Finals, being swept out both times. The 1978 Washington Bullets weren’t as good as their ’71 and ’75 predecessors during the regular […]