A Banner Day for Lakers: Kareem Takes His Post, 1975

[This is a long article, so I’ll keep this brief. Brief enough to write that this article from the Los Angeles Times is one of my favorites from the 1970s. The reason: reporter Thomas Bonk took a seminal moment in NBA history and had the investigative wherewithal to fill in most of the blanks on the 1975 trade of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to the Laker. Bonk d…