Given how large it is now, people tend to forget just how unimportant the NBA was in the '70s. Attendance was sagging, interest was dwindling, and things were bad enough that NBA playoff games -- ostensibly the most important games of the season -- were being put on tape delay....
Given how large it is now, people tend to forget just how unimportant the NBA was in the ’70s. Attendance was sagging, interest was dwindling, and things were bad enough that NBA playoff games — ostensibly the most important games of the season — were being put on tape delay….
