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Tip-Off Timer: '78, the Year of H-O-R-S-E

Aug 10, 2009 – 9:00 AM
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Tom Ziller

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Tip-Off Timer counts down the days until the first game of the 2009-10 season. On Monday, there are exactly 78 days remaining.

During the 1977-78 season, CBS used halftime of its regular season and playoff broadcast to show a H-O-R-S-E tournament it had held in Atlanta before the season. Some of these matches have made it YouTube as NBA TV replays them now and then. Here's the most star-studded match-up, Pistol Pete Maravich versus George "The Iceman" Gervin.
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