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"People were a lot more enlightened in the 1970s … or at least less uptight."

Whatever.

Black men were still being lynched in Georgia for being with a white woman in a car after dark. But if two black NBA head coaches makes you feel all misty eyed about the past, go for it.

Right on, right on.

Josh,
We are all so impressed with your hipster interest in race, sports and jazz.

But this doesn't make you any taller.

Sorry, I was living in BC at the time. My next door neighbor was black, but it was only when we went on field trips to the US that his skin color was a big deal.

Mind you, his family had lived in Canada for a couple of hundred years.

It was nice to see Wes Unseld. And was that Jamaal Wilkes on that sweet pullup?
I grew up watching Willis Reed and Wes Unseld bang in the low post, every kid on the block had to have a spin like Earl Monroe, kick their legs like Dick Barnett, and nobody would shoot underhand free throws like Rick Barry. When the Ice-man came along, everybody had to get a finger roll too. And that's right, no hype about black coaches. Although it seemed most coaches were guys like Red Holzman.