[Dick Mackey covered the NBA in the 1970s for the Kansas City Times. He made the most of his front-row seat in Kemper Arena marvelling at the amazing Tiny Archibald, Jimmy Walker, Sam Lacey, Scott Wedman, and the rest of the Kansas City Kings. Mackey was known as a tireless reporter, probably a little too much so. In 1978, while on assignment to cover t…
