During the 1972-73 season, the Philadelphia 76ers were not just a
bad team; they were fantastically awful. Doomed from the start
after losing their leading scorer and rebounder, Billy Cunningham,
as well as head coach Jack Ramsay, they lost twenty-one of their
first twenty-three games. A Philadelphia newspaper began calling
them the Seventy Sickers, and they duly lost their last thirteen
games on their way to a not-yet-broken record of nine wins and
seventy-three losses.
Charley Rosen recaptures the futility of that season through the
firsthand accounts of players, participants, and observers.
Although the team was uniformly bad, there were still many
memorable moments, and the lore surrounding the team is legendary.
Once, when head coach Lou Rubin tried to substitute John Q. Trapp
out of a game, Trapp refused and told Rubin to look behind the
team's bench, whereby one of Trapp's friends supposedly opened his
jacket to show his handgun. With only four wins at the All-Star
break, Rubin was fired and replaced by player-coach Kevin
Loughery.
In addition to chronicling the 76ers' woes, "Perfectly Awful" also
captures the drama, culture, and attitude of the NBA in an era when
many white fans believed that the league had too many black
players, most of whom were overtly political and/or using
recreational drugs.
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