A behind-the-scenes look at the championship team that included Julius
Erving, Moses Malone, Maurice Cheeks, Bobby Jones, Andrew Toney, and
others. The Sixers won 65 games and an NBA championship in 1982–83,
still one of the finest seasons in NBA history. It was Moses Malone
who, in the days before the playoffs, gave the team its battle cry.
Asked by coach Billy Cunningham how he thought things would go in the
playoffs, Moses said, “Fo’, fo’, fo’,”— meaning, in
Moses’s shorthand, that he expected the Sixers to sweep each of the
three series they would need to play in order to win a championship.
In this newly revised edition of Tales from the Philadelphia 76ers
Locker Room, sports maverick Pat Williams teams up with writer Gordon
Jones to capture a behind-the-scenes look at this legendary season.
With wit and candor, Williams and Jones relive the unforgettable
victories as well as the wrenching disappointments and painstaking
efforts to rebuild that preceded that season. Readers are reintroduced
to Julius “Dr. J” Erving, the beloved but unfulfilled superstar;
Billy Cunningham, the hard-driven coach; Harold Katz, the relentless
owner; and Moses Malone, the final piece of the title puzzle. Joined
by a star-studded cast of players, they rampaged through the league,
leaving a trail of devastated teams in their wake. With a thirty-year
legacy that has yet to be surpassed by any 76ers team, Tales from the
Philadelphia 76ers Locker Room is both a celebration of past glory and
a promise of future victory to the loyal fans of the 76ers nation.
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A Collection of the Greatest Sixers Stories from the 1982-83 Championship Season
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781613214190
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Sports Publishing (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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