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Like 'The Producers' Meets Pro Basketball
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It's less a talk topic than a story you can tell, about a dentist/cocaine dealer bought a basketball team and arena and it all predictably collapsed in a financial and physical (arson!) disaster. The story's about a rich kid who amassed a fortune from coke dealing in the early '80s, was helped by a financial adviser to essentially launder the money by buying a minor league basketball franchise and moving it to Philadelphia as the Kings and buying the decrepit Arena (once the Warriors' home), hiring a Hall of Famer (Hal Greer) to coach and a faded NBA star (Cazzie Russell) to play, and it went amusingly awry (until the advisor arranged for a biker gang member to torch the arena roof, that is), with miniscule crowds and, ultimately, the law closing in. It's a bizarre and colorful tale that mixes sports and vintage true crime. (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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