4.
In January of 1971, the Fordham
University Rams played a basketball
game against the University of
Massachusetts Redmen. The game was
in Amherst, at the legendary arena
known as the Cage, where the Redmen
hadn’t lost since December of 1969.
Their record was 11–1. The Redmen’s
star was none other than Julius Erving—
Dr. J—one of the greatest athletes ever
to play the game of basketball. The
UMass team was very, very good.
Fordham, on the other hand, was a team
of scrappy kids from the Bronx and
Brooklyn. Their center had torn up his