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10. George Wyatt, “Malone Tops 2,000 Point Mark as Peterson Downs Colonial Heights,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), February 24, 1974.
11. Larry Clark, “Petersburg Repeats as State Champs,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), March 10, 1974.
12. Larry Clark, “Inside Sports,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), March 12, 1974.
13. Koesters, discussion.
14. Early, “Recruiting Pressures.”
15. Early, “Early Successes.”
16. George Shirk, “NBA Star Malone May Join Sixers with Record-Setting Contract,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 3, 1982.
17. “Malone Paces Victory,” New York Times, April 1, 1974.
18. Gutman, Chairmen of Boards, 125.
19. Mike Pollio, in discussion with the author, May 17, 2022.
20. Eddie Biedenbach, in discussion with the author, April 25, 2022.
21. Didinger, One Last Read, 114.
22. Dick Vitale (@DickieV), “Hey @espn had several tv ppl pick the best HS player they have ever seen. My MOUNT RUSHMORE OF The BEST in HS would be # 1 @KingJames 2 @MagicJohnson 3 @kobebryant 4 Moses Malone,” Twitter, April 12, 2020, 2:33 p.m., https://twitter.com/dickiev/status/1249405407786930181?s=27&t=ovbog0rh2yf5r8u4upwriQ.
23. Gutman, Chairmen of Boards, 122–23.
24. George White, “They All Wanted Malone,” Houston Chronicle, December 14, 1976.
25. Didinger, One Last Read, 115.
26. Kevin Wilson, in discussion with the author, April 10, 2023.
27. “Malone Slated to Say Friday,” Albuquerque Journal, June 11, 1974.
28. “New Mexico Loses Malone,” Albuquerque Journal, June 21, 1974.
29. Mark Whicker, “Moses Malone Went from High School to Pros and Rebounded His Way to the Hall of Fame,” Los Angeles Daily News, last modified August 28, 2017, https://www.dailynews.com/2015/09/15/moses-malone-went-from-high-school-to-pros-and-rebounded-his-way-to-hall-of-fame/.
30. “New Mexico Loses Malone,” Albuquerque Journal.
31. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 87–88.
32. Rick Telander, “The Descent of a Man,” Sports Illustrated, March 8, 1982, https://vault.si.com/vault/1982/03/08/the-descent-of-a-man.
33. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 45.
34. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 45–46.
35. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 59, 64.
36. Telander, “Descent.”
37. Telander, “Descent.”
38. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 89.
39. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 89.
40. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 90.
41. “New Mexico Loses Malone,” Albuquerque Journal.
42. Bob Ibach, “Holy Moses! Terps Expect Investigation,” Evening Sun (Baltimore), June 21, 1974.
43. Driesell, discussion.
44. Whicker, “Moses Malone.”
45. Driesell, discussion.
46. Gordie Jones, “The Legend of Big Mo: Everyone Has a Moses Malone Memory, but His Legacy Lives On beyond the Court,” The Athletic, March 25, 2019, https://theathletic.com/876572/2019/03/25/the-legend-of-big-mo-everyone-has-a-moses-malone-memory-but-his-legacy-lives-on-beyond-the-court/.
47. Locke and Ibach, Caught in Net, 90.
48. LeRoy Bearman, “Recruiting Malone Cost U. $10,000,” Albuquerque Journal, June 26, 1974.
49. “Malone’s Recruiters Being Probed,” The Capital (Annapolis MD), June 24, 1974.
50. “Mrs. Malone Is Telling All: Clemson Offered Moses Cash,” The Capital (Annapolis MD), July 2, 1974.
51. George Ferguson, “Roof Falls on Lobos,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), January 21, 1975.
52. Art Chansky, “Blame Put on Locke,” Herald-Sun (Durham NC), October 8, 1975.
7. Stop Jivin’ Me, Coach
1. Bucky Buckwalter, in discussion with the author, March 2, 2022.
2. Ernest Shaw, “Malone One of Many to Make Jump,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), December 10, 2006.
3. “Hardship Cases Listed by NBA,” The Capital (Annapolis MD), May 9, 1975.
4. “Royals Snap Up Lucas,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, May 27, 1962.
5. Joe Dowdall, “Harding at Best; Shamrocks, Too,” Detroit Free Press, March 4, 1961.
6. “Pistons Can’t Use 7-Foot Prep,” Lawrence (KS) Journal-World, July 3, 1962.
7. “7-Foot Ex-Scholastic Star to Play Center for Pistons,” New York Times, June 19, 1964.
8. “Shotgun Blast Fatal to Reggie Harding,” Bakersfield Californian, September 5, 1972.
9. Pluto, Loose Balls, 141–42.
10. Spears and Washburn, Spencer Haywood Rule, 33, 35.
11. Spears and Washburn, Spencer Haywood Rule, 45.
12. Spencer Haywood, in discussion with the author, June 24, 2022.
13. Spears and Washburn, Spencer Haywood Rule, 93.
14. Spears and Washburn, Spencer Haywood Rule, 94.
15. Haywood, discussion.
16. Vince Boryla, interview by Bob Kuska, August 9, 2010, audio, Bob Kuska, private collection.
17. Boryla, interview.
18. George White, “They All Wanted Malone,” Houston Chronicle, December 14, 1976.
19. Harry Marsh, “Malone Drafted in Third Round by Pro ABA Utah Stars; Kilbourne and Peal Think He Should Attend College First,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), April 18, 1974.
20. “ABA Circus Tabs Malone,” Albuquerque Times, April 18, 1974.
21. Sam Goldaper, “A.B.A. Goes for Broke in Draft,” New York Times, April 18, 1974.
22. Pennington Greene, in discussion with the author, June 7, 2023; and Bernard Vaughan, in discussion with the author, May 13, 2023.
23. Dan Pattison, “Stars Formally Announce Sale,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), June 4, 1975.
24. Halberstam, Breaks of the Game, 193–94.
25. Buckwalter, discussion.
26. Halberstam, Breaks of the Game, 192–93.
27. Buckwalter, discussion.
28. Larry Keech, “NBA Agents Go Big Business: The Agents Who Represent Former Duke and UNC Basketball Players Hang Out in Executive Suites, Not on Street Corners,” News & Record (Greensboro NC), last modified January 24, 2015, https://greensboro.com/nba-agents-go-big-business-the-agents-who-represent-former-duke-and-unc-basketball-players/article_e5183498–55fd-552e-8e20–643b773ab643.html.
29. Donald Dell, in discussion with the author, April 2, 2022.
30. Driesell, discussion.
31. Dell, discussion; and Lee Fentress, in discussion with the author, May 3, 2022.
32. Fentress, discussion.
33. Buckwalter, discussion.
34. Putnam, “Don’t Send.”
35. Pluto, Loose Balls, 328.
36. Leroy Cole, discussion.
37. “Will Moses Be Happy in the Promised Land?” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 1, 1974.
38. Gerald Eskenazi, “Schoolboy Accepts $3-Million Pro Offer,” New York Times, August 30, 1974.
39. MacMullan, Bartholomew, and Klores, Basketball, 157.
40. Joe Gross, “Lefty Driesell Talks about Moses,” The Capital (Annapolis MD), October 1, 1974.
41. “Moses Malone Signing Stirs Mixed Responses,” Los Angeles Times, August 31, 1974.
42. Sam Goldaper, “Storm Gathering over Malone’s Case,” New York Times, August 27, 1974.
43. Mike Gold, “Kehoe Requesting Congressional Investigation,” The Diamondback, September 6, 1974, https://digital.lib.umd.edu/student-newspapers/id/f14a0ac3–7688–41c5–9d2f-66dc45b6bae8?relpath=pcdm&query=Moses%20malone (article removed).
44. Taylor Branch, “The Shame of College Sports,” The Atlantic, October 2011, https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/308643/.
45. Dwight Chapin, “The Odyssey of Moses Malone,” Modesto Bee, December 26, 1974.
46. Rod Sieb, “Did Moses’ Crossing Open the Floodgates?” Basketball Weekly, February 13, 1975.
47. Sieb, “Did Moses’ Crossing Open Floodgates?”
48. Chapin, “Odyssey of Moses.”
49. Goldaper, “Storm Gathering.”
50. Harry Marsh, “Malone Signs Pro Contract; Conference Set in New York,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), August 29, 1974.
8. A Star Is Born
1. MacMullan, Bartholomew, and Klores, Basketball, 140–41; and Kuska, Balls of Confusion, 74.
2. 30 for 30, season 2, episode 10, “Free Spirits,” directed by Daniel H. Forer, aired October 8, 2013, on ESPN.
3. MacMullan, Bartholomew, and Klores, Basketball, 137.
4. MacMullan, Bartholomew, and Klores, Basketball, 139.
5. Freddie Lewis, in discussion with the author, February 21, 2023.
6. Pluto, Loose Balls, 200.
7. Craig Wirth, “Wirth Watching—Here Come the Stars, Here Come the Stars,” ABC, May 22, 2017, https://www.abc4.com/news/wirth/wirth-watching-here-come-the-stars-here-come-the-stars/.
8. Pluto, Loose Balls, 213.
9. “Moses Malone: From Scared Prep Player to Confident Pro,” Lakeland (FL) Ledger, March 30, 1975.
10. Willie Wise, in discussion with the author, April 19, 2023.
11. Ron Boone, in discussion with the author, August 30, 2022.
12. Bill Bean, in discussion with the author, June 22, 2022.
13. Boone, discussion; Randy Denton, in discussion with the author, September 1, 2022; and Wise, discussion.
14. Putnam, “Don’t Send My Boy.”
15. Howard Blatt, “Relentless Malone Still Getting It Done,” Daily News (New York), December 25, 1993.
16. Denton, discussion; Jim Eakins, in discussion with the author, March 3, 2023; and Wali Jones, in discussion with the author, September 1, 2022.
17. Buckwalter, discussion.
18. Dan Pattison, “Stars, Moses Lose Debuts,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), October 4, 1974.
19. Sam Goldaper, “Garden Matchup: Reserve Centers,” New York Times, October 8, 1974.
20. Pluto, Loose Balls, 326–27.
21. Dan Pattison, “Ferrin: Bring Moses along Slowly,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), August 30, 1974.
22. Dan Pattison, “Stars Face Nets—Minus Willie Wise,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), October 18, 1974.
23. Leonard Koppett, “Nets Overcome Stars, 95–91,” New York Times, October 31, 1974.
24. Buckwalter, discussion; and Wali Jones, discussion.
25. Pluto, Loose Balls, 327.
26. “Malone Better Than Expected,” Albuquerque Journal, December 24, 1974.
27. Dan Pattison, “Better Believe in Moses, Stars,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), December 9, 1974.
28. Steve Rudman, in discussion with the author, September 8, 2022.
29. Didinger, One Last Read, 116.
30. “Teen Night”: advertisement, Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), November 21, 1974.
31. Harvey Kirkpatrick, in discussion with the author, September 21, 2022.
32. Eakins, discussion.
33. Rudman, discussion.
34. Jim Hague, “Gerald Govan,” Hudson County Sports Podcast, produced by Jim Hague, YouTube video, 1:20:16, November 19, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aeEwG5Ak34.
35. Harry Xanthakos, “Moses Malone: No Miracles . . . Just Victories,” Black Sports, January 1975, 38.
36. Rick Hummel, “Moses Vows to Stay with Spirits,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 11, 1976.
37. Steve Rudman, “Moses Malone Proves Talking Can Be Cool,” Salt Lake Tribune, January 26, 1975.
38. Kirkpatrick, discussion.
39. Rudman, “Moses Malone Proves.”
40. Kirkpatrick, discussion.
41. Jeff Gordon, “Moses Malone Stuns Cage Experts with Successful Jump to Pro League,” Stripes, August 2, 1978, https://www.stripes.com/news/moses-malone-stuns-cage-experts-with-successful-jump-to-pro-league-1.55608; and Malone, “Playboy Interview,” 52.
42. Rudman, discussion.
43. Malone, “Playboy Interview,” 52.
44. Nathan Dickerson, in discussion with the author, May 12, 2022; and Fentress, discussion.
45. Wali Jones, discussion.
46. Wise, discussion.
47. Wise, discussion.
48. Ungrady, Tales from Maryland Terrapins, 156.
49. Mark Asher, “Moses Paves Easy Road for Mother,” Salt Lake Tribune, February 7, 1975.
50. “From Scared Prep Player to Confident Pro,” Lakeland (FL) Ledger.
51. Denton, discussion.
52. Wali Jones, discussion.
53. Boone, discussion.
54. Moses Malone, “Original Old School: First and Foremost,” interview by Aaron Paul, Slam, November 10, 2010, https://www.slamonline.com/nba/original-old-school-first-and-foremost/.
55. Gerald Govan, in discussion with the author, August 30, 2022.
56. Buckwalter, discussion.
57. Brad Rock, “Moses Malone Owned It, Even with Utah Stars,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), September 15, 2015, https://www.deseret.com/2015/9/15/20572378/moses-malone-owned-it-even-with-utah-stars#moses-malone-seen-here-aug-29–1974-is-the-high-school-basketball-player-who-turned-pro-direct-from-high-school-he-was-selected-by-the-utah-stars-ap-photo-robert-houston.
58. Eakins, discussion.
59. Gutman, Chairmen of Boards, 135–36.
60. “Bucky Coaches Last Victory,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), February 11, 1975.
61. Rudman, discussion.
62. Eakins, discussion; and Leonard Shapiro, “Kupchak Duel with Malone Spices Series,” Washington Post, April 26, 1977.
63. Deford, “Bounding.”
64. Shapiro, “Kupchak Duel.”
9. Bad News and the Spirits
1. Pluto, Loose Balls, 327.
2. Ken Gardner, in discussion with the author, February 10, 2023.
3. Denton, discussion; and Sam Goldaper, “Malone and Spirits Iron Out Problems,” New York Times, January 8, 1976.
4. Kirkpatrick, discussion; and Earl Gustkey, “The King of Cable: Since 1952, U.S. Has Helped Bill Daniels Get the Picture,” Los Angeles Times, September 8, 1986.
5. Dan Pattison, “Daniels Sells Four Key Stars,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), December 2, 1975.
6. Gustkey, “King of Cable.”
7. Rudman, discussion.
8. “‘Keep Stars’ Is Concern of Chamber,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), January 16, 1974.
9. Dan Pattison, “Stars Formally Announce Sale,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City UT), June 4, 1975.
10. Pattison, “Daniels Sells Four Key Stars.”
11. Bean, discussion.
12. Gardner, discussion.
13. Steve Green, in discussion with the author, September 2, 2022.
14. Denton, discussion.
15. Del Harris, in discussion with the author, May 28, 2022.
16. Paul Montgomery, “Spirits Get Stars of Stars,” New York Times, December 3, 1975.
17. Bill Livingston, “Player of the Year Moses Malone,” Basketball Digest, June-July 1983, https://archive.org/details/sim_basketball-digest_june-july-1983_10_8/page/20/mode/2up?q=moses+malone.
18. Fentress, discussion.
19. Harry Marsh, “The Sports Scene,” Progress-Index (Petersburg), December 7, 1975.
20. Lawrence F. O’Brien National Basketball Association Papers (MS 504), series 3, box 17c, folder 33, Springfield College Archives and Special Collections, Springfield MA.
21. “NBA’s Hawks Hit Jackpot,” Salt Lake Tribune, May 30, 1975.
22. O’Brien Papers, series 3, box 17c, folder 33.
23. “NBA Holds Special Draft of NBA Players,” The Capital (Annapolis MD), December 31, 1975.
