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KobeMVP888 wrote:3Peatkb24 wrote:KobeMVP888 wrote:The 70's were my favorite decade of basketball, but that's because I was young, played all the time and loved the college game back then, too. Pistol Pete, Magic and those Knicks kind of says it all for me. As mind blowing as the 80's were and then the 00's, the 70's hold a very special place in my heart.
Yeah I was so damn young in the 70's that I basically only understood the game at the tail of end of that decade. 1st Finals I ever watched was Sixers/Blazers and I remember Blazers taking out the Lakers with Kareem there. 1979 NCAA Finals I remember like it was yesterday because I was probably the only person in Indiana that rooted for Michigan St, most adults probably wanted to kill meI just loved the way Magic played from the few games I was able to see him. Man when he joined Kareem in 1980 I cant describe what I was feeling because I was already a Laker fan because of Kareem. The Basketball Gods did me a major solid as a young kid!
The other huge part of it was the new, really exciting ABA, whose brand of basketball was the obvious influence on today's game. If you haven't read "Loose Balls, the Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association" by Terry Pluto or "The Breaks of the Game" by David Halberstam, they are musts. I know I have talked about those books ad nauseum, but they are worth repeating if you haven't read them. IMO they are the best books ever written on professional basketball.
The 70's was an awesome decade, I was really young but my mom allowed me to watch a lot of games and stay up late, etc..
