Season of the 76ers

A chronicle of the unprecedented, record-setting championship journey of the team that finally stopped the Boston Celtics and became the new kings of the NBA.

For eight straight years, the Boston Celtics had dominated the National Basketball Association. Each and every season during that stretch, a new NBA championship flag was hoisted to the top of the hallowed Boston Garden. No team had been able to stop them. Nobody thought any team could or would.

Sportswriter Wayne Lynch tells the story of the legendary Chamberlain’s personal triumph over Boston and their leader, Bill Russell, archrivals who had annually thwarted Chamberlain’s championship dreams and had left him branded a loser.

But Chamberlain couldn’t defeat the Celtics alone. He was reunited with fiery and focused Coach Alex Hannum, the only NBA coach ever to have beaten Boston for the championship. He was surrounded by the best supporting cast of his career: Hal Greer and Chet Walker, two talented offensive stars transplanted from a bygone NBA franchise; Luke Jackson, the league’s first true power forward; Billy Cunningham, a sixth man loaded with instant energy and offense; Wally Jones and Larry Costello, a pair of basketball reclamation projects; and, Matty Guokas and Bill Melchionni, a couple of hometown rookies.

The book gives fans a fascinating, month-by-month look at the team’s amazing season and also recounts in vivid, play-by-play detail one of the most historic playoff series in the annals of the NBA.

Packed with pictures, playoff box scores, and reproductions of the 76ers’ championship yearbook, this book is not only the biography of a great team, it is a fun- and fact-filled sports collectible.