Philadelphia's Spectrum is hosting its final big league game after more than four decades of hockey and basketball drama and concert thrills.
The 76ers host the Chicago Bulls on Friday night. But first the crowd will get a chance to cheer Julius Erving and other members of the Sixers' 1982-83 NBA championship team being introduced before the game.
The Spectrum opened in 1967 as home of the Philadelphia Flyers, and the Flyers won their first Stanley Cup championship there in 1974.
The arena also rocked to countless concerts including one captured in The Doors Live in Philadelphia 70 recording, and 53 Grateful Dead extravaganzas. The Spectrum is being demolished later this year to make way for a new hotel, entertainment and retail complex.
The Spectrum...has many memories to me even though I've never entered the building. Way back when the Seattle Super Sonics were a basketball team, the annual or semi-annual visit to Philly at the Spectrum. Recall the Jack Ramsey lead 76'ers most vividly. I feel very intimate with the 76'ers history thanks to the Sonics. Lot's of the greatest players played for the Sixer's. When they detonated the Kingdome was a sad day for Seattle. Sure the Spectrum going down in a pile of rubble will be a sad day for Phillie.
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