What’s It All About, Walter? 1974

[By the mid-1970s, NBA Commissioner Walter Kennedy was running on fumes. He’d tried several times to resign as NBA “czar,” but the owners bickered and bellowed and couldn’t agree on “Walter’s replacement." A cadre of NBA (and, interestingly, a few ABA) officials lobbied hard to get lawyer Al Rothenberg approved as Kennedy’s replacement at 2 Penn Plaza, …