MLK Assassination: To Play or Not to Play? 1968

[On Thursday, April 4, 1968, Philadelphia awoke feeling pretty-darn good about their defending-champion 76ers and the team’s prospects in the Eastern Conference championship series, set to commence tomorrow against the hated Boston Celtics. Al Domenico, the 76ers’ trainer, publicly stated that the defending-champion 76ers would sweep Boston in four. “It…