Daily News | Wali Jones, still a wonder, now on a West Philly mural too
This was at a time when Magic Johnson was everything in Los Angeles and in the NBA.
It’s good to remember those ‘67 Sixers were NBA champions, with a serious case for best NBA team ever. Of course they would make an impression, even on a young kid in Michigan. His father told Wali stories of the days before Wali was born – “where you couldn’t go across Market Street. Where you couldn’t play basketball or play baseball at Overbrook High School. … If you see the hat he wore …”“That image is not me,” Jones said to the crowd, returning to his theme about the mural behind him. “It’s you. … I’m not talking about reinventing the wheel. There were guys doing this for us when we grew up. Sol Murphy. Sonny Hill. John Chaney.
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