Spring 1970

[Robert Mahnke]

Regardless of whom they lost to, isn't the significance of the basketball
games(for a fan, anyway, such as Doc) is that while the Lakers are alive in
the playoffs they have the promise of transcendance, that instead of
finishing the season as losers as almost every team does every year, and as
the Lakers had ever since they'd moved to Los Angeles -- indeed, as
runners-up six of the previous eight years -- instead of being losers again,
they might just, this time, win the championship.  That's the dream, but of
course the Lakers lose in the end.

They beat the Knicks for the championship in 1972, but of course that's not
when the novel is set.




On 3/11/10, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I forget, we are talking about the spring of 1970, right?
>
> so that'd be the 1969-70 season for the NBA, right?
>
> so that'd be the Knicks beat the Lakers.
>
> Where'd I get Celtics from?  Probably Vineland...
>
>
> New York is the home of Goldman Sachs, champions of
> making the money flow away from the people.
> So the subtext still works almost as well, doesn't it?
>
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