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Tony Petrocelli is an Italian-American, Harvard-educated lawyer, who grew up in South Boston and gave up the big money and frenetic pace of major-metropolitan life to practice in a sleepy city in Arizona named San Remo (filmed in Tucson, Arizona). His wife Maggie and he live in a house trailer in the country while waiting for their new home to ...
The 1976 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1975–76 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Phoenix Suns 4 games to 2 in the NBA Finals. The series was highlighted by Game 5, a 3-OT victory by Boston.
Each would go on to coach more than 2,000 games in the NBA. This was the final season before the NBA-ABA merger. In the 1976 offseason, four ABA teams joined the NBA: the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, San Antonio Spurs, and the reigning ABA champion New York Nets, who relocated to New Jersey.
NBA Finals – Boston Celtics win 4 games to 2 over the Phoenix Suns; 1976 ABA Playoffs – New York Nets defeat Denver Nuggets 4 games to 2; American Basketball Association merges with the National Basketball Association.
Examines the sporting events of the day in question, among them the opening of the FIFA World Cup, the NBA Finals, the last U.S. Open round of Arnold Palmer, and the New York Rangers' Stanley Cup celebration—all overshadowed by O. J. Simpson's run from the police.
The 1976–77 NBA season was the 31st season of the National Basketball Association. The season ended with the Portland Trail Blazers winning their first NBA Championship in franchise history, beating the Philadelphia 76ers in six games in the NBA Finals .
Highest-grossing films of 1976 Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross 1 Rocky: United Artists: $117,235,147 2 To Fly! IMAX Films $86,600,000 3 A Star Is Born: Warner Bros. $63,129,898 4 King Kong: Paramount: $52,614,445 5 Silver Streak: 20th Century Fox: $51,079,064 6 All the President's Men: Warner Bros. $51,048,435 7 The Omen: 20th Century Fox ...
Burt Reynolds as a convict who plays on his prison football team. Two-Minute Warning: 1976 Thriller Fictional story of stadium sniper, starring Charlton Heston. Gus: 1976 Comedy Disney tale of a mule that is able to take a slumping pro football team to the Super Bowl by winning with the ability to kick field-length field goals. Black Sunday ...