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Dave Cowens: Behind Basketball’s Revolution, 1974

bobkuska
Feb 08, 2022
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[Here’s a magazine article about Boston’s Dave Cowens, and there sure were plenty of them back in the 1970s. What’s a little different about this one is it goes into how Cowens, as one of the NBA’s first mobile centers, was helping to push the pro game in the direction it has now evolved: a more-position-less pastime. This piece appeared in the April 19…

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