One down, 28 to go – barring the phenomenally unlikely chance that they’ll meet up in The Finals, we’ve seen the last of the franchise originally known as the Rochester Royals for this season.
More likely, these two stout performances over the last eight days against a contending team will serve as primary high points to another less than regal season for the Association’s most transient and widely-traveled franchise.
Through the years, Karma appears often to have made this a star-crossed franchise – from the alleged playoff screw-job vs. the Lakers nearly 20 years ago; despite the best efforts of Tiny Archibald and Bob Cousy; notwithstanding their re-location to Cincinnati in the late ‘50’s in order to better utilize the league’s territorial draft; all the way back to the tragic striking down of Maurice Stokes.