Calvin Murphy: The Little Man Plays It Big, 1972

[The great L. A. Times columnist Jim Murray once wrote, “God made Calvin Murphy an athlete—but left him a foot short of the basketball player.” Murray line’s is great for a laugh; it’s also anything but true. Calvin Murphy was a basketball player. An amazing one at that. 

“I’ve only been scared on the basketball court but one time in my life,” former ABA…