Perfectly Awful: The Philadelphia 76ers' Horrendous and Hilarious 1972-1973 Season

by Charley Rosen

During the 1972-1973 basketball season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham, as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen games on their way to a not-yet-broken record of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803248628
• ISBN13: 9780803248625
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.6"