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Perfectly Awful: The Philadelphia 76Ers' Horrendous And Hilarious 19721973 Season,New
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During the 19721973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twentyone of their first twentythree games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen games on their way to a notyetbroken record of nine wins and seventythree losses.Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers. Although the team was uniformly bad, there were still many memorable moments, and the lore surrounding the team is legendary. Once, when head coach Roy Rubin tried to substitute John Q. Trapp out of a game, Trapp refused and told Rubin to look behind the teams bench, whereby one of Trapps friends supposedly opened his jacket to show his handgun. With only four wins at the AllStar break, Rubin was fired and replaced by playercoach Kevin Loughery.In addition to chronicling the 76ers woes, Perfectly Awful also captures the drama, culture, and attitude of the NBA in an era when many white fans believed that the league had too many black players.
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