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Foreword by Nate ThurmondThree years before Brian Sipe began his magic with the Cleveland Browns, Bill Fitch and his band of Cavaliers brought a buzz to Northeast Ohio basketball that fans had never seen before. Despite a rough start to their 1975-76 season, the Cavaliers rode the shoulders of Akron native Nate Thurmond to the Central Division title. Under his leadership, they qualified for the playoffs. Then in April the Cavs provided fans with a remarkable string of games against the Washington Bullets, winning in incredible fashion three times twice at The Coliseum in Richfield en route to a 4-3 series victory in the Eastern Conference Semifinal.An emotionally charged experience, this was the Cavs first time in the playoffs. To further the excitement, three of their four victories weren't clinched until the final buzzer.
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Roger Gordon has written nine sports books, most recently Blanton's Browns: The Great 1965-69 Cleveland Browns and A Century of NFL Football: The All-Time Quiz. He has written four other football books and three basketball books. For eight years, Gordon wrote for the magazine Bernie's Insiders/The Orange and Brown Report for which he conducted personal interviews with some 70 former Cleveland Browns, including Hall of Famers Jim Brown, Paul Warfield, Ozzie Newsome and Leroy Kelly. Other publications Gordon has written for include The Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Lake Erie Living Magazine and the Record-Courier in Portage County, Ohio. He is a member of the Professional Football Researchers Association.
