Connie Hawkins' First Spin Around the NBA, 1969

[In the 1972 book Stand Up for Something: The Spencer Haywood story, author Bill Libby spoke with Sam Schulman, owner of the Seattle Supersonics, about the latter’s frustration with the NBA’s status quo. Schulman’s frustration had hit a high simmer in mid-1969 when the NBA Board of Governors awarded the NBA rights to then-ABA star Connie Hawkins to the …