'Nobody Can Guard Me! I'm Unstoppable!' Lloyd Free
[In December 1977, Christmas came early for third-year Philadelphia guard Lloyd Free. The 76ers tendered a five-year contract extension at $150,000 a season, and Free was suddenly in the money, spending the final weeks of 1977 thumbing through real-estate listings and imagining that his NBA future resided in Philadelphia. He even opened his own sneaker …