Posted by goetz93 on 5/28/2022 5:17:00 PM (view original):
I believe someone had made a comment and then deleted it after I drafted MARVIN - just curious - was that an awful pick?? Trying to learn - never drafted the 70's before.
Amazing story about the Spirits owner - that had to be some party!!
This was before I was born. My father grew up in North Bergen, NJ, Hudson County. Played with Heinsohn on playgrounds and with Togo Palazzi in high school. My father also played a game in the Catskills against a team that Chamberlain was playing on. Red Auerbach was the coach of my dad's team in the Catskills. This was like 1954 maybe, when Wilt was still in high school I think, and the Celtics had not won anything yet. The hotels up there each had a team and the customers would bet a lottery to try and predict the total points scored in the game. My father was close friends with Ozzie when they were young men, but He never saw him again after Ozzie became rich.
5/28/2022 5:46 PM (edited)