In this all new episode of the Historically Speaking Sports, Co Hosts Dana Auguster and Charles Combs, discuss and speculate about one of the NBA's brightest and most influential eras.

As with a lot of sports fans, we like to think and wonder what would have happened if this thing happened or that event would not have happened, how would have history been different.

In this episode Auguster and Combs discuss three scenarios that possibly would have changed NBA history as we know it.

Titled "Jordan Era What Ifs" we discuss various questions:

What if Len Bias and Reggie Lewis both had full careers with the Boston Celtics in the late 1980s and 1990's?

What if Arvydas Sabonis would have come to the Portland Trail Blazers when he was drafted in 1986 instead of having to wait almost a decade to join the team because of political instability in the former Soviet Union?

And finally, how dominant would the Houston Rockets would have been after reaching the NBA Finals in 1986 if Ralph Sampson would not have been lost to injury and two of their stars, Lewis Lloyd and Mitchell Wiggins had not been suspended for drug use?

We will attempt to answer these questions as well as send a shout out to one of the most underrated NBA drafts ever, the 1986 NBA Draft.

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Every year no mater the sport, no matter the decade, every season has certain characteristics and highlights that sets that year apart from all others.

The 1978 NBA Season has it own distinctive flavor from the New York Nets moving to Piscataway from Long Island and becoming the New Jersey Nets to the Washington Bullets winning their only NBA title.

Yet were there were two other events that took place during 1978 NBA regular season that set that year apart and in both cases forever linked two pairs of players together in NBA history.

In one instance, two future basketball Hall of Famers had a season long scoring duel that ended with a climatic finish on the last day of the regular season that rewrote the record books.

Yet there was another event that happened in the early stages of the 1978 regular season that became one of the league's most infamous. So infamous in fact that it actually prompted an investigative report from legendary CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite.

The incident was known simply in the annals of NBA history as "The Punch".

We have that and so much more on this all new edition of the Historically Speaking Sports podcast right here on the Sports History Network. The podcast that give you the best of sports from back in the day.

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In this episode of Historically Speaking Sports, we introduce new co-host Charles Combs that will join current host Dana Auguster to continue to give listeners the best of sports from back in the day.

Combs, a long time friend of Dana Auguster whose friendship has lasted for close to 30 years, will provide added content, sports passion and possibly debates on sports issues with a historical spin.

Combs talks about his sports interests as well as current sports topics such as the recently completed NFL Draft, the NBA playoffs and the early stages of the 2025 MLB season.

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