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	Sports 2000 Numbers - Most Surprising NBA Champs: No. 3, 1977-78 Washington Bullets
		Of the 52 teams that won the NBA title, only five won less than fifty games during the regular season.
		Although at first, the team had some problems adjusting to each other, they were able to discover their roles by the end of the season and in time for the playoffs.
		During their playoff run to the finals, coach Motta repeatedly recited the Bullets' season long battle cry, "The opera isn't over 'til the fat lady sings."
	www.sportingnews.com /archives/sports2000/numbers/164847.html (1007 words)

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		The Bullets were the self-proclaimed underdogs of the 1977-78 playoffs.
		The 1962-1963 season brought the Chicago Zephyrs to light, while in 1963 the franchise moved to Baltimore and was named the Bullets.
		No other organization in the NBA's 55-year history has reinvented itself as many times as the Washington Wizards.
	www.ticketstogo.com /sports/nba/washington_wizards_tickets.shtml (401 words)

	IDS: Grizzlies' Brown wins Coach of the Year (Sports, 04/22/2004)
		The award marks a 26-year span between victories for Brown, who also was honored as the top coach in the 1977-78 season with Atlanta.
		Brown hadn't coached in the NBA since 1987 and was working in TV when he took over as Memphis' coach two weeks into last season, when the team won 28 games -- then a franchise record.
		Brown -- at 70, the oldest coach in the league -- had plenty to talk about Wednesday after winning the NBA Coach of the Year award for leading the Memphis Grizzlies to a team-record 50 wins and their first playoff berth.
	www.idsnews.com /print.php?id=22930 (720 words)

	NBA Street Vol. 2 Walkthrough - IGN FAQs
		5) Bill Walton (Portland Trailblazers) 1972 - 1987 He won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award in the 1977-78 season.
		Clutch" (Los Angeles Lakers) 1960 - 1974 He was the third player in NBA history to reach 25,000 carrer points.
		After you beat all of the teams and legends, you will be awarded with a nice ol' trophy that you can check out at the rewards screen.
	faqs.ign.com /articles/452/452082p1.html (720 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Atlanta Hawks' Lenny Wilkens Named 1996 USA Olympic Coach
		Wilkens returned to Seattle as head coach midway through the 1977-78 season, and remained as the head coach through the 1984-85 campaign before moving to the front office as general manager.
		In 1995-96, Atlanta under Wilkens compiled a 46-36 regular season record and advanced to the NBA Eastern Conference semifinals, while in '94-95, the Hawks finished the regular season 42-40 record and advanced to the playoffs.
		Holding the distinction of having participated in more games (3,151 through 1995-96) as a player and/or head coach than anyone else in NBA history (when you factor in regular season, playoff and all-star games), Wilkens played in 1,150 games over his 15-year NBA playing career, and has coached in 2,001 games (including four all-star games).
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/sports/olympics/longterm/bball/mens/wilkens.htm (964 words)

	Nate "Tiny" Archibald Biography
		The player who proved the "little man" could excel in professional basketball logged 14 NBA seasons playing for Cincinnati (1970-72), Kansas City-Omaha (1972-76), New York Nets (1976-77), Buffalo (1977-78, injured did not play), Boston (1978-83) and Milwaukee (1983-84).
		In Kansas City's first season, he averaged 34 points a game and 11.4 assists per outing, becoming the only player in NBA history to lead the league in those two categories in the same season.
		In the second round of the 1970 NBA draft, the Cincinnati Royals and Hall of Famer Bob Cousy took a chance on Nate Archibald, a shy and diminutive scatback guard from the University of Texas-El Paso.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Archibald.htm (440 words)

	WIZARDS: Wizards Announce 2005-06 Television Broadcast Schedule
		The Emmy-award winning, nine-year veteran, Steve Buckhantz will once again handle the play-by-play calls for Comcast SportsNet, alongside Phil Chenier, a former All-Star guard and member of the 1977-78 Washington Bullets World Championship team, who will provide color commentary for the 21st consecutive season.
		Among other exciting early-season Comcast SportsNet telecasts, is a Wednesday, December 28 battle with the NBA's reigning Most Valuable Player Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns at MCI Center.
		WBDC-TV 50 will carry 15 Wizards games in 2005-06, including a rematch from the 2005 NBA Playoffs, when Washington meets the Chicago Bulls on Saturday, December 10 at 7:00 p.m.
	www.nba.com /wizards/news/tvschedule_050927.html (466 words)

	NBA.com: COACHES
		He helped guide the Nuggets to nine straight playoff appearances from 1981-82 to 1989-90, including a berth in the Western Conference Finals in 1984-85, and finished with a career playoff scoring average of 24.4 points per game in 10 playoff appearances (including the 1977-78 season with Milwaukee).
		During the 2003 off-season, English traveled to Africa with a contingency of NBA players as a camp director for the Africa 100 Camp, a camp that offered basketball instruction and educational programs addressing important social issues for the top 100 young players from more than 19 African countries.
		After retiring from the NBA in 1991, English played one season in the Italian League for Delp Napoli, where he scored 13.9 points per game.
	www.nba.com /coachfile/alex_english?nav=page (817 words)

	Press Release
		ECU has had only four losing records in Minges in its history and has not recorded a losing season in the Coliseum since 1977-78.
		Williams Arena will also be an outstanding venue for graduation, concerts, public speaking appearances, and has played host to NBA basketball and professional wrestling.
		Now, as the Pirates prepare for the 1998-99 season, ECU basketball will again call Williams Arena at Minges Coliseum "home." The renovations, totaling almost $12 million, have made the arena one of the finest on-campus basketball facilities on the East Coast.
	www.ecu.edu /cs-lib/archives/pr_display.cfm?id=78 (275 words)

	Nate "Tiny" Archibald Biography
		The player who proved the "little man" could excel in professional basketball logged 14 NBA seasons playing for Cincinnati (1970-72), Kansas City-Omaha (1972-76), New York Nets (1976-77), Buffalo (1977-78, injured did not play), Boston (1978-83) and Milwaukee (1983-84).
		In Kansas City's first season, he averaged 34 points a game and 11.4 assists per outing, becoming the only player in NBA history to lead the league in those two categories in the same season.
		When the Royals moved to Kansas City/ Omaha in 1972 and became known as the Kings, the nickname fit "Nate the Skate" perfectly.
	www.hoophall.com /halloffamers/Archibald.htm (440 words)

	USA Basketball: Bio - Mens - Baker
		Baker also joined Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1969-70), Bobby Dandridge (1969-70) and Marques Johnson (1977-78) as the only Bucks players ever to be named to an all-rookie squad (Glenn Robinson followed in 1994-95).
		Baker ranked 14th in the NBA in scoring at 21.1 ppg.
		The Milwaukee Bucks tapped Baker with the eighth overall pick in the 1993 NBA Draft and in the process became the highest draft pick ever from a North Atlantic Conference school and only the second Hartford product ever drafted by an NBA club (the first was Mark Mitchell in 1986).
	www.usabasketball.com /biosmen/vin_baker_bio.html (440 words)

	HickokSports.com - Biography - Bob McAdoo
		Buffalo traded him to the New York Knicks during the 1976-77 season and the Knicks sent him to the Boston during the 1977-78 season.
		McAdoo was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1981 and he spent four seasons with them.
		He also led the NBA with 1,155 rebounds in 1974-75, when he was named the league's most valuable player.
	www.hickoksports.com /biograph/mcadoobob.shtml (440 words)

	CBS News They liked Ike, but Arizona State looks for better things July 28, 2005
		It would be almost inexplicable for Arizona State to lose Diogu, the most dominant force in program history -- the only player to lead the Pac-10 in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots since all three stats were kept in 1977-78 -- and be better without him.
		The inexplicable happened last year at Minnesota, where the Gophers were coming off a 12-18 season in 2003-04 -- and having to do so without Kris Humphries, who had bolted for the NBA after becoming the first freshman to lead the Big Ten in scoring and rebounding.
		Evans says Angounou continues to recoup the explosiveness he lost after a devastating knee injury cost him all of the 2002-03 season and half of 2003-04.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/sportsline/main8683846.shtml (920 words)

	USATODAY.com - Grizzlies' Brown wins NBA coach of the year award
		The award marks a 26-year span between victories for Brown, who also was honored as the top coach in the 1977-78 season with Atlanta.
		Brown was retired as a coach and working in TV wxen he took over as Memphis' coach two weeks into last season, when the team won 28 games — a franchise record then.
		NEW YORK (AP) — Hubie Brown won the NBA Coach of the Year award Wednesday for leading the Memphis Grizzlies to a team-record 50 wins and their first playoff berth.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/basketball/nba/grizzlies/2004-04-21-brown_x.htm (920 words)

	Sporting News, The: The punch still packs a wallop
		After missing the rest of the 1977-78 season, Tomjanovich came back to play three more years, though never again the shooter he had been.
		So rich in detail as to be a model of the reporter's art, it's 'also an account so frightening it ought to be required reading for every NBA player.
		But the Washington-Tomjanovich incident now can be seen as a before-and-after moment in NBA history.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_45_226/ai_94334802 (843 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: John Havlicek
		Havlicek retired following the 1977-78 season, one of the worst in Boston history, at age 37, as the sixth-leading scorer in NBA history, scoring an impressive 29 points in his final game at Boston Garden.
		Nonetheless, Havlicek's versatility and athletic ability was so great that he was drafted by both the National Football League's Cleveland Browns in the seventh round of the NFL draft and the Celtics in the first round of the NBA draft following his graduation from OSU in 1962.
		For his first four seasons, a time when the Celtics were rich with veteran players, Havlicek enjoyed the role of "Sixth Man," coming off the bench late in the first quarter of games to provide instant scoring at a time when other players were putting their weaker reserve players in the game.
	www.findarticles.com /g1epc/bio/2419200521/p1/article.jhtml (908 words)

	NBA History: Pete Maravich Bio
		Maravich missed 32 games in 1977-78 because of a combination of surgery on one knee, a bacterial infection and tendinitis in his other knee.
		Maravich played in his second NBA All-Star Game during the season and scored 15 points in 22 minutes.
		Maravich averaged 26.2 ppg during the postseason as the Hawks bowed to Boston in the conference semifinals for a second straight year.
	www.nba.com /history/players/maravich_bio.html (2286 words)

	NBA History: Wes Unseld Bio
		He was the league's MVP and Rookie of the Year in 1968-69 and a five-time NBA All-Star who captained the Baltimore and Washington Bullets to four NBA Finals appearances in the 1970s and to a championship in 1977-78.
		For the season, Unseld scored 7.6 ppg (ninth on the team) and yanked down 11.9 rpg (10th in the NBA).
		The Bullets were favored, but the Warriors, led by Rick Barry, peaked in the postseason and swept the series in four games.
	www.nba.com /history/players/unseld_bio.html (2164 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports > College Basketball -- Arizona State forward Diogu opts for draft
		Diogu is the only player to lead the conference in all three categories since blocks became an official statistic in 1977-78.
		PHOENIX – Ike Diogu, the third player to ever lead the Pac-10 in scoring and rebounding in the same season, will remain in the NBA draft.
		Diogu announced for the draft on March 28, but did not hire an agent and, as recently as two weeks ago, issued a strong denial that he had made up his mind.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/college_basketball/20050621-1658-bkn-diogu-nba.html (378 words)

	NBA History: David Thompson
		Thompson and the San Antonio Spurs' George Gervin provided memorable drama in the 1977-78 season, as the two battled for the league scoring title right down to the final game.
		Thompson chose the upstart ABA and signed with the Denver Nuggets, who had acquired his draft rights from Virginia in a five-player trade.
		It was Thompson who popularized the "alley-oop." Dunking in college games was against the rules at the time, so guard Monte Towe would toss the ball high up over the rim for Thompson to deposit into the basket.
	www.nba.com /history/thompson_bio.html (1351 words)

	San Diego Blog » san diego history
		Following a proposal by then-NBA attorney David Stern, the Braves were allowed to leave Buffalo after the 1977-78 season for San Diego.
		On Monday, September 25th, San Diego was the scene of the worst air disaster, to date, in the United States.
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	sandiegoblog.com /archives/category/san-diego-history (1351 words)

	Sprewell is Suspended by the NBA
		The record was held by the Lakers' Kermit Washington, who missed half of the 1977-78 season after throwing the punch that caved in Rudy Tomjanovich's face.
		Golden State's Latrell Sprewell is the fifth player to be suspended by the NBA and the first for insubordination:
		Sprewell may be picked up on waivers, or signed as a free agent when waivers expire, but can't play for a new team until then.
	www.pacificnet.net /jue/idontknow/sprewell971205.html (1025 words)

	Ex-Piston great Lanier shares in championships - 01/13/05
		Bob Lanier, pictured in 1976, led the Detroit Pistons in scoring and rebounding every season from 1971-72 through 1977-78.
		Bob Lanier runs a clinic last summer in South Africa as part of an NBA outreach program.
		Lanier, 56, finds it humorous that the Pistons want to wear those jerseys, but he hopes they won't be wearing the short-shorts that went with the uniform.
	www.detnews.com /2005/pistons/0501/13/C04-58753.htm (906 words)

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