Lots of Basketball- Part 2

We begin today look at basketball history with a look at a pair of games from December 13, 1959. The first one was played at the Onondaga County War Memorial Arena in Syracuse, New York where the Syracuse Nationals beat the Philadelphia Warriors by a score of 150-121. Just a few shorth years later the Warriors moved to San Francisco, California and a season later the Nationals replaced them in Philly with a move of their own. On that same date at the Olympia in Detroit, Michigan, the Detroit Pistons scored a 147-129 victory over the visiting New York Knicks. Both of those teams however remain in the city where they played at the time.
We move on to a December 13, 1980 game played between the San Antonio Spurs and the Denver Nuggets at the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio. The home team Spurs scored a 147-123 win. The Nuggets were no stranger to playing high scoring games on December 13th won by the home team.
Fortunately for the Nuggets they were the home team in the December 13, 1983 game played with the Detroit Pistons. The Pistons despite having 47 of the games 93 assists dropped a heartbreakimng, record setting game to the Nuggets 186-184 in triple overtime. Three hundred seventy total points is alot of points for any basketball game, at any level of play.
On December 13, 1989 once again the Continental Basketball Association got into the act. In a game played at Moline, Illinois, the Quad City Thunder scored a 172-122 win over the Santa Barbara Islanders.
Finally on December 13, 2005, in a game played at SBC Center in San Antonio, Texas, the Spurs took a 95-87 overtime win from the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers had only 6 turnovers in the game, which was two more then the Spurs had. Thats not a bad game when the two teams combine for only 10 turnovers in an overtime game.
Tomorrow we will have our third and final look at the series.