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Hey, I’ve got an idea. Let’s all watch Lawrence Taylor utterly destroy everyone for a minute.

@abathrowbacks @rsimpson44 @DanIssel44 @nuggets @DNVR_Nuggets @brettmgoldberg @CoachKarl22 @VicLombardi These Nuggets were the ABA's best team in 1976, but Doc's Nets pulled a major upset by winning the title series. As a Nets fan heading into game 1, I anticipated Denver to win in 6 - and for it to be a remarkably entertaining series. (It was, tho it was hard to find on Tv)

Denver Nuggets 1976 This squad was one of Denver’s best basketball teams. Almost won an ABA championship, probably should have. They don’t get the love or celebration they deserve!

@mckoosa1 @YvanMontgury @BillSimmons @BenStiller @knickcity @NycRoundball @NBA_NewYork @nyknicks @KnicksFanTv @KnicksNationFr @MrChuckD @PeterVecsey1 @KnicksNation One of the finest, most dramatic and most successful seasons any player has ever had in NBA/ABA history.

@YvanMontgury @BillSimmons @BenStiller @knickcity @NycRoundball @NBA_NewYork @nyknicks @KnicksFanTv @KnicksNationFr @MrChuckD @PeterVecsey1 @KnicksNation

1969-1970, Willis Reed was UNSTOPPABLE 💪 21.7 PTS 13.9 TRB 2 AST 38.1 min 81 Games 18 Playoffs Games Most Valuable Player All-Star Game Most Valuable Player All-NBA First Team All-NBA Defensive Team Finals Most Valuable Player @BillSimmons @BenStiller #AlwaysKnicks

@SpencerAlthouse Colbert's own lawyers (or writers) aren't familiar with the concept of fair use or the blanket licenses the network already has from ASCAP, BMI, etc.?

LOL Stephen Colbert is making his band play licensed music during his final show so CBS – who fired him – will get sued and have to pay millions "Anyone illegally using that music is gonna have to pay through the nose--" [band starts playing] "Oh no! I hope this doesn't cost CBS any money!"

@emmitonair Walt Wesley

LeBron James or Kyrie Irving isn’t available: name a Cleveland Cavalier.

@VinnysCorner1 I'll keep Doc, Baylor, Bird & Havlicek. You can have the rest.

Cut one….

Dr. J embarrassing defenders to the soulful crooning of Marvin Gaye. Old school b-ball for the win

@VinnysCorner1 The great SB champion Kevin Boss of the NY Giants.

Name a former Tight End that only true fans of your favorite NFL team will remember.

@PeterVecsey1 Yep, the tandem that led the NY Nets to the first two post-merger NBA titles.

Dr J. & Tiny A…that never happened…

@franfraschilla @JuliusErving @sixers I recall it vividly. In fact, I suspect the greatest inventory of as-yet-unmined Dr. J Nets highlights are in the tapes of NYC area evening newscasts' sports reports, which typically featured 2-5 Dr. J clips from each Nets game.

Those of us who watched @JuliusErving on Channel 9 in New York City playing for New York Net pre-knee tendinitis saw this virtually every night. The @sixers version was only 70% of the young Doc. Who remembers?

On this day in 1980... Dr. J started walking in the air with this iconic scoop layup vs the Lakers in Game 4 of the 1980 NBA Finals 😮

@KevG163 It was a shame to lose the Steelers and Browns from the great rivalries with (and amongst) the Giants, Eagles, Wash., etc.

May 10, 1969 The final hurdle of 1966's AFL-NFL merger agreement is crossed as three NFL teams — the Baltimore Colts, Cleveland Browns, and Pittsburgh Steelers — agree to move to the new American Football Conference (AFC) beginning in 1970. As an incentive, each of the three teams would receive a payment of $3 million, paid by the other NFL owners. This realignment would create two 13-team conferences, the AFC and NFC.

@KevG163 @Jimschr96585222 Falcons, Saints and Vikes would have been a better idea. What a shame to break up the great rivalries the Steelers, Colts and Browns had established with other older NFL teams.

@Jimschr96585222 The Falcons and Saints, and possibly the Vikings. In other words, the NFL's three most recent expansion teams.

@VinnysCorner1 Lou Slaby

Name a former Linebacker that only true fans of your favorite NFL team will remember.

@arhooptalk And Willis Reed & his Knicks still won the series.

Just a reminder in his rookie season, Kareem had a 30-30 game in the playoffs and a 46 point - 25 rebound game

@PeterVecsey1 Great ballplayer and competitor. As a Knicks fan Gus always worried me. Highly under appreciated today.

@VinnysCorner1 Jack Marin. Kevin Loughery, and the great Gus Johnson.

Without saying Elvin Hayes, Earl Monroe, Wes Unseld, Rex Chapman or Juwan Howard, name a Bullet…

@TheFrizz87 Neal Walk

Name any random former Phoenix Suns player. I'll start with Wesley Person!

@PeterVecsey1 @YvanMontgury @abathrowbacks @CoachKarl22 @jasonlevin18 @JuliusErving @WaltFrazier @RealEarlMonroe @GayleBrownMayes @stevejones20 @Rick24Barry Absolutely correct. But to fans like me (& you) back then, that amazing first-ever matchup between NBA & ABA all-stars was anything but "meaningless." I probably enjoyed your account of it in the Post the next day, and we ABA fans talked up the game for weeks after.

@kmkstuff @YvanMontgury @abathrowbacks @CoachKarl22 @jasonlevin18 @JuliusErving @WaltFrazier @RealEarlMonroe @GayleBrownMayes @stevejones20 @Rick24Barry Exhibitions are meaningless, as are any statistics compiled in them, respectfully…

May 28, 1971 #SoulPower Rare footage of the first ever All-Star Game between the NBA and ABA which would take place The NBA All-Stars would defeat the ABA All-Stars 125-120.

@PeterVecsey1 @YvanMontgury @abathrowbacks @CoachKarl22 @jasonlevin18 @JuliusErving @WaltFrazier @RealEarlMonroe @GayleBrownMayes @stevejones20 @Rick24Barry With great respect, Peter, Ford may have been 1st to do so in a regulation NBA game, but Dave DeB was (years earlier) the 1st NBA player to hit a 3 ptr while playing for an NBA team (the NBA allstars who played the ABAers in that 1st interleague game w/ABA rules in the 1st half)

@kmkstuff @YvanMontgury @abathrowbacks @CoachKarl22 @jasonlevin18 @JuliusErving @WaltFrazier @RealEarlMonroe @GayleBrownMayes @stevejones20 @Rick24Barry Celtic Chris Ford was the first to down an nba three…