Retro video - Spurs vs 76ers 1980

[Old School 44]

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.



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

[Interrohater]

Aw man, I'm watching this as soon as I get home! I can't watch it at work as they block youtube here. Is it the whole game?

[Old School 44]

Aw man, I'm watching this as soon as I get home! I can't watch it at work as they block youtube here. Is it the whole game?

Not the whole game, but pretty close. I like that it's not just a highlight video.

[lefty]

Dr J was such a glorified dunker


Magic and Bird took him to school

[baseline bum]

I have that full game.

[The III]

Thanks Old School ! , Nice post !

[Old School 44]

Another item I found at the 6:20 mark - Dr J arguing a foul call with none other than Joe Crawford (with hair)!

[lefty]

Another item I found at the 6:20 mark - Dr J arguing a foul call with none other than Joe Crawford (with hair)!

damn

[wildchild]

Thanks Old School 44!!

[travis2]

How about the pipe smokers in the front row?

[DJR210]

Anyone remember that game, IIRC it was also against the 76ers, where Sean dunks and hangs on the rim, but his momentum swung him horizontal and he falls flat on his back from ing 8 feet up?

[Russ]

Alan Bristow hit the biggest shot in Spurs history (until AJ in 1999) to win that Philly series in Game Seven.

Up until then, the Spurs had never won a playoff series in the ABA or NBA.