NBA Legends The League Wanted Forgotten

A household of thirteen people lived on seven thousand dollars a year, in a house with no running water. Twenty-four years later one of those children was earning eight hundred thousand a year — more than Muhammad Ali, more than any athlete in team sport anywhere on earth. Eighteen months after signing it, he lent two hundred thousand of that money back to his own club. This film covers a leap that forced the NCAA to rewrite its rulebook and handed basketball the alley-oop, seventy-three points in a single night, and a record that did not survive until morning. You will hear what plantar fasciitis meant in a decade with no treatment for it, why a general manager put a private investigator on a staircase at Studio 54, and what Julius Erving said about him on a television that was playing in a state facility. Subscribe to Broken Hardwood for more untold stories from the NBA's golden age. TIMECODES 00:00 — Thirteen People, Seven Thousand Dollars, and No Running Water 01:30 — Shelby, North Carolina, and a Forty-Four-Inch Vertical 04:30 — The Dunk Was Illegal, so N.C. State Invented the Alley-Oop 07:30 — March 1974: David Thompson Lands on His Head and Comes Back 10:30 — The Week John Wooden's Seven-Year Run at UCLA Ended 13:30 — Denver Takes David Thompson First Overall in Two Leagues at Once 16:30 — April 9, 1978: Seventy-Three Points, and George Gervin Answers 19:30 — Four Million Dollars, More than Muhammad Ali Was Paid 22:30 — The Club Asks Its Own Player for the Money Back 25:30 — March 10, 1984: David Thompson and the Staircase at Studio 54 28:30 — What Julius Erving Said, and Who Was Listening #DavidThompson #Skywalker #DavidThompsonStory #NBAGoldenAge #NBADownfall