Spencer Haywood: Sonic Superstar, 1971

[By March 1970, everyone who followed basketball had heard of Spencer Haywood. He was the 6-foot-9 rookie sensation with the ABA’s Denver Rockets. But with the ABA rarely on national television, most fans had never seen Haywood play live. They sufficed with print news accounts, sometimes written in rumbling prose worthy of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not,” …