Original Old School: Sweet And Sour
https://slamonline.com/nba/original-old-school-sweet-and-sour/#post/0 July 30, 2010 - SLAM Staff We know you’ll be happy with this week’s Original Old School . Originally printed in SLAM 35, Scoop hit this Micheal Ray Richardson story out of the park arena.—Ed. by Scoop Jackson Politics. Either you play them or you get played. Springfield, Massachusetts. An obscure place in the middle of nowhere, away from everything. This is the resting place for the game, politics too. Bronze faces stare at you as you walk through the corridors. The Basketball Hall of Fame. It’s cold, its history. Baylor. Pettit. Chamberlain. West. The usual and necessary suspects. All played the game, all deserve to be enshrined. Then there are those who never made it here. The ones who could only master either the game of basketball or the politics of the game of basketball. Never both. Those that if you ask the right people–in the right town, at the right time–will tell you about somebody who is missing...