Old School 44
09-10-2014, 08:28 AM
Here's a fun retro video from 1980 - Spurs versus the 76ers.
There's nothing real significant about the game itself, the Spurs lost by a big margin, but it gives you a glimpse of what the game was like back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em445cuhQmI
Things of note.
Doctor J and the Iceman two of the best players and top nicknames of all time.
Bob Bass, Spurs interim coach and GM, assistant coach George Karl
Other players on the rosters, 76ers - Lionel Hollins, Doug Collins, Maurice Cheeks, Henry Bibby, Bobby Jones, and Daryl Dawkins, Spurs - Larry Kenon, James Silas, Mark Olberding, Mike Gale, John Shumate, Kevin Restani, Mike Evans, Wiley Peck.
The short shorts and the big tube socks, players wearing gold chains, the fros, just the overall 80s style
The Hemisfair Arena and the cotton-eyed joe
CBS Sports broadcasting, with Brent Musberger, Bill Russell and Rod Hundley
4:35 flashback clip of Dawkins shattering his first backboard
8:30 camera panning to the rafters to show the Central Division championship banner and talk of the team moving to the Midwest Division with Houston and expansion team Dallas
There's nothing real significant about the game itself, the Spurs lost by a big margin, but it gives you a glimpse of what the game was like back then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em445cuhQmI
Things of note.
Doctor J and the Iceman two of the best players and top nicknames of all time.
Bob Bass, Spurs interim coach and GM, assistant coach George Karl
Other players on the rosters, 76ers - Lionel Hollins, Doug Collins, Maurice Cheeks, Henry Bibby, Bobby Jones, and Daryl Dawkins, Spurs - Larry Kenon, James Silas, Mark Olberding, Mike Gale, John Shumate, Kevin Restani, Mike Evans, Wiley Peck.
The short shorts and the big tube socks, players wearing gold chains, the fros, just the overall 80s style
The Hemisfair Arena and the cotton-eyed joe
CBS Sports broadcasting, with Brent Musberger, Bill Russell and Rod Hundley
4:35 flashback clip of Dawkins shattering his first backboard
8:30 camera panning to the rafters to show the Central Division championship banner and talk of the team moving to the Midwest Division with Houston and expansion team Dallas