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David Thompson’s Leap to Fortune, 1979

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David Thompson’s Leap to Fortune, 1979

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May 20, 2022
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[Jim Murray, the Los Angeles Times sports columnist and king of the one-liner way back when, decided in March 1978 to badda-boom about the NBA’s high-flying superstar David Thompson. “If David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets had a rotor, he could direct traffic on the San Diego Freeway or give police signal alerts to radio stations below . . . David Thom…

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