The Ladies Who Love the Knicks, 1971

[In the 1971 book Alcindor, the Big O & The Champion Bucks, author John Devaney paints this vivid portrait of attending an NBA game in New York’s Madison Square Garden back then:

“The Garden filled slowly. I walked down the aisles and saw it was the usual New York basketball crowd: teenagers in sloppy clothes and long hair and wearing sneakers; 30ish swi…