I always thought it was God’s sick joke to be the daughter of my Dad, who played and then coached Sixers Championships, when I couldn’t make a basket unless my eyes were closed. When I was young, I asked my Dad to teach me how to play basketball. He must have been trying to get… Continue reading At 106, Pop Jones Captures The Heart of The City of Brotherly Love
. Forty years ago, I couldn’t appreciate the enormity of winning the 76ers World Championship. There were the sports fans (honking and screaming), my Dad (wearing sunglasses, ahem), the players (soaring and signing autographs with the coach along with them), and me (graduating 8th Grade). But I saw things differently when Dad couldn’t make the… Continue reading Why The 1983 Sixers Legends Stand Tall Forty Years Later
The Sixers will honor the 40th Anniversary of the 1983 World Champions at the Sixers game tonight. Boy, does this take me back to the basement, in those bins leftover from the fire with all that stuff Mom had saved? And there among all those sports articles others had written about Dad was Dad’s byline… Continue reading By Billy Cunningham: The 76ers Two Titles (40 and 56 years ago)
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