Connie Hawkins Comes Home, 1970
https://from-way-downtown.com/2023/07/26/connie-hawkins-comes-home-1970/ Posted by bobkuska July 26, 2023 [Here’s another feature on Connie Hawkins, his NBA banishment, and his million-dollar redemption with the Phoenix Suns. This article comes from the February 1970 issue of the popular men’s publication True Magazine . The feature also is clearly a follow up to the Life Magazine ’s 1969 blockbuster story on Hawkins that the blog recently posted. This True Magazine piece covers a lot of the same ground as the Life article. But reporter Al Stump , mostly remembered for his autobiography of baseball’s Ty Cobb, charts some new ground . . . and garbles a few facts to turn up the melodrama. But still, his sourcing is excellent and, for the quotes alone, Stump’s piece is still worth the read to understand just how ethically wrong-headed the NBA’s blackball of Hawkins really was.] **** The career of Connie Hawkins, now in his first season with the National Basketball Associatio...