Changing Times: Today’s Players Can Do More Things Than We Could, 1973

[Many basketball historians acknowledge that the early NBA, roughly defined as 1947 to the mid-1960s (or before the first wave of NBA expansion), had its bush-league qualities. They are quick to point out, however, that the NBA back then was “a real man’s league.” All the greats were distilled into just eight NBA warring franchises, and nobody had the l…