Wow!! Basketball

     Not all of the Basketball games that we discuss on this blog are of the high scoring, more then 144 point type of games. Some of the games feature lower scoring games where records are approached. Today we are looking at some of these games.

    We start today at March 9, 1971 at the Oakland- Alameda County Coliseum Arena. The San Francisco Warriors were hosting the Boston Celtics. The ball must have been very slippery as 70 turnovers were recorded, 45 of them by the Warriors. That fact played huge as the Celtics came away with a 134-112 victory.

   Moving ahead to 1984 we make a stop at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. The 76ers were hosting the Seattle SuperSonics. The 76ers had 20 of the games 32 blocked shots. I dont know about you but, I would rather have my team record alot of blocked shots instead of alot of turnovers. The 76ers came out with a 92-84 win.

   One year later at the McNichols Sports Arena in Denver, Lafayette Lever of the Nuggets had 8 steals in one quarter. The performance lead the Nuggets to a 126-116 victory of the Indiana Pacers. The high scorers of the day award goes to the Nuggets, who nine years before posted a 155-128 win over the Virginia Squires. The game was played at the same place during their American Basketball Association days.

   The answer to yesterdays trivia question is 10 clubs played during the 1961-62 season of the national Bowling League. The teams were the Dallas Broncos, the Detroit Thunderbirds, Fort Worth Panthers, the Fresno Bombers, the Kansas City Stars, the Los Angeles Toros, the New York Gladiators, the Omaha Packers, the San Antonio Cavaliers and the Twin Cities Skippers of Bloomington, Minnesota. There, I count 10 clubs.

   Tomorrows trivia question is a real tough one. The New York Gladiators were not the first team of any kind in the area to be called the Gladiators. In what league did the Brooklyn Gladiators play in and what year(s) did they play? The answer in tomorrows daily blog on a very special hockey debut.