More than 30 years ago, Bob McAdoo moved teams to win a title. He doesn’t understand the spite his fellow MVP has received after joining the Warriors
More than three decades before Kevin Durant became a Golden State Warrior, another 6ft 9in high-scoring, former NBA MVP joined the league’s most explosive team in the hope of winning a title. Bob McAdoo was not scorned for this. In fact, no one seemed to think it was a bad idea.
Instead, McAdoo – a three-time NBA scoring champion – signed with the Los Angeles Lakers from the New Jersey Nets before the 1981-82 season, embraced a secondary role to stars such as Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and gleefully scored 16 points in the clinching game of the following spring’s finals. And he would do it all over again.
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