The NBA’s Five Toughest Arenas, 1975

[Back in the distant day, teams on the road traveling to the various NBA arenas could be in for a journey as eventful as those that befell Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey. Instead of cannibalistic Laestrygonians, there were the raucous gamblers inhabiting New York’s old Madison Square Garden. “When the point spread was beginning to change a little, especi…