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The Stokes Game: NBA legends helped one of their own

Basketball Intelligence
Aug 19, 2013
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From Bryan Curtis at Grantland:

"For decades, legends in the NBA headed up to the Catskill Mountains to do what they knew to help one of their own

"The whole thing — the friendship between two guys, the magical charity games — started with an injury basketball had no language to describe. On March 15, 1958, the Cincinnati Royals lost to Detroit in the pla…

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