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The Man With a Thousand Faces

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May 21, 2021
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One of the seminal figures of the early NBA was Eddie Gottlieb, a.k.a., "Gotty" or, out of earshot, "The Mogul." Gotty owned the Philadelphia Warriors from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s. That’s when he quietly sold the Warriors for a then-hefty $850,000 and allowed his beloved franchise to be relocated to San Francisco. But Gotty hung around the…

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