The Man With a Thousand Faces

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…