Dennis Johnson: Basketball’s Top Defensive Guard, 1980

[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…