I HAD TICKETS for Game 5 of the 1983 NBA Finals at the Spectrum. It was just before I got into the writing business full-time and nine years after I was supposed to see Moses Malone at Cole Field House.
Caesar Alsop, my great friend from the University of Maryland who would become the Daily News sports editor, had been telling me stories about how this Moses was going to take the Terps to the Promised Land. C-Man grew up in Virginia and knew all about the man-child from his home state.
Turned out Moses was so good that there was no Game 5 in 1983, no trip up I-95 from Baltimore for me then, no need for him to play one day of college basketball.