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Dennis Johnson: Basketball’s Top Defensive Guard, 1980

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Aug 16, 2021
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[By game five of the 1979 NBA championship series, the Seattle SuperSonics were sitting pretty. They held a 3-1 advantage in their best-of-seven series with the Washington Bullets, and, so far, just about every in-game adjustment made by Bullet coach Dick Motta had backfired. A major reason for Washington’s clunk-clunk-clunk was Seattle’s young defensiv…

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