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JoePhilly

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128. Thanks ... I'm glad to see Doug Collins coaching them ...

Mon Dec 26, 2011, 06:44 PM

Dec 2011

He was playing for the Sixers when I was a kid ... and my grandmother worked at the local ABC station and so one day he was there, and she got him to sign an autograph for me ... I played a lot of basketball back then, but had just broken one of my ankles. So he wrote ... "Take care of those ankles!! Doug Collins" ... I still have it.

You sound like you follow basketball ... so maybe you'll like this related story ... Do you remember Daryl Dawkins?? He played center for the Sixers back in the late 70s, and he's the guy who broke the backboards dunking. Here is a Youtube link on it.

At one point in the video, one of the reporters is holding one of the pieces of backboard glass that resulted from the dunk (the 2nd dunk, th one in one in Philly).

A guy my Grandmother knew at that TV station was able to get all of the broken glass. The crew who cleaned it up did not see it as significant. She said he gave them like $200 for all of it. He called them "Dawkins Diamonds", and tried to sell them.

My grandmother got him to give her some of them, and she gave them to me ... so I also have an envelope of about 15 little pieces of that broken backboard. Sad thing is, there is no documentation for them.

Still, fun to have them.

Continued good wishes.

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