The Sixth Man
THE NBA TURNED 75 YEARS old this season. That’s a crazy amount of history, and I think I speak for most 30-somethings (and younger) when I say that it’s both cool and weird that there are decades of elite hoops that were played before my time or when I was too young to have any idea what was going on. Even if I had been a fully formed adult around the time SLAM debuted (1994), that would still put a couple decades of pro ball before my era. All of which means that in order to pay respect to the history of the NBA, we at SLAM need to look before the year we started publishing. This was the motivation for the “75 BEFORE ’94” program, a collection of 75 brand-new…