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Loose Balls 67: Off the court, Cliff Hagan was a gentleman [...] a class act all the way.at class act, n.
Loose Balls 67: Off the court, Cliff Hagan was a gentleman [...] a class act all the way. Loose Balls 147: I felt that the team was [...] good enough to win a lot of games in the ABA. But someone had to take control and that meant kicking some butt.at kick ass, v.
Loose Balls 155: Roger [Brown] was the Larry Bird of the ABA. He had the all-around skills [...] and he used that 3-point shot just like Bird—to break your back.at break someone’s back (v.) under back, n.1
Loose Balls 218: Jabali went down for the count [...] And to tell you the truth, most people who saw what happened on both teams were glad that Jabali finally got his bell rung.at ring someone’s bell (v.) under bell, n.1
Loose Balls 306: We had a ‘boiler room’ operation, where we [...] had a dozen people on the telephones, calling businesses and selling them 10 tickets for 10 bucks.at boiler-room (n.) under boiler, n.1
Loose Balls 149: One day he [Slick Leonard] got all over my butt [...] Hoover was pushing me all over the place and Slick started cussing me out. He called me ‘chickenshit’.at get all over somone’s butt (v.) under butt, n.1
Loose Balls 179: I know of several cases where an agent double-dipped. By that, I mean the agent took his cut from the kid after doing the contract, then he took money on the side from the ABA to deliver the kid.at double-dip, v.
Loose Balls 412: I was the ABA’s general counsel and it seemed like we were always putting out fires.at put out fires (v.) under fire, n.
Loose Balls 86: ‘Donnie, Jelly might get 60 tonight.’ Donnie said, ‘Steve, he’ll be lucky to get three more baskets.’ I said, ‘No way, the man’s on fire’.at on fire (adj.) under fire, n.
Loose Balls 331: They put the story on page A-1 and they fried me.at fry, v.
Loose Balls 26: .at go off, v.
Loose Balls 324: She had ulcers that were bleeding internally and if she wasn’t careful, she could go.at go, v.
Loose Balls 301: She said, ‘You’re nothing but a goat roper.’ I turned to my local counsel and asked him what the hell a goat roper was. He said, ‘Well, that’s an insult. It means it’s somebody who’s not even good enough to rope a horse’.at goat roper (n.) under goat, n.1
Loose Balls 244: The first thing he [Isaac Hayes] said was, ‘I don’t want to do anything unless I’m the major stockholder.’ Hey, that was no problem. If Hayes had the money, he could be the guy’.at guy, n.2
Loose Balls 252: [W]e started talking to Joe’s agent, a guy who had shrunk Joe’s head in a million ways.at shrink someone’s head (v.) under head, n.
Loose Balls 53: The guy later became the manager of the Monkees, and he was sort of far out in left field to be in pro basketball.at leftfield, n.
Loose Balls 298: He came off the bench and lit it up pretty good.at light up, v.1
Loose Balls 190: I was just a kid and these grown men were giving me my lunch every night.at eat someone’s lunch (v.) under lunch, n.
Loose Balls 58: They started having 3-on-3 games for 15 minutes. If you didn’t show much in that 15 minutes, you were outta there.at out of there, phr.
Loose Balls 147: He thought Roger wasn’t putting out in practice, so he left him behind.at put out, v.
Loose Balls 43: But the thing [i.e. an open tryout for a basketball team] also started to look like a zoo, and we probably were going to get ripped in the press.at rip, v.
Loose Balls 363: Nobody passed the ball, no one helped out on defense, everyone just wanted the rock and went 1-on-1.at rock, n.
Loose Balls 150: [W]e were playing Pittsburgh and we were losing by about 20 at the half, really stinking up the joint.at stink up (v.) under stink, v.
Loose Balls 357: When I signed Lucas to that contract, I was widely criticized for giving away the store.at give up the store (v.) under store, n.
Loose Balls 31: But there was no ESPN or CNN or SportsChannel to bring Julius [Erving] into the nation’s living room, even for a 10-second tease.at teaser, n.4
Loose Balls 363: In my mind, the symbol of the Spirits will always be Marvin Barnes tooling down the street in his Rolls.at tool, v.
Loose Balls 166: Slick [Leonard] was a hard-driving, two-fisted guy who coddled no one.at two-fisted (adj.) under two, adj.
Loose Balls 420: That last championship is a tribute to Doc [Julius Erving]. He was just ungodly.at ungodly, adj.
Loose Balls 144: I went to the wall for those two guys, telling Mike Storen to give them time and they’d be all right.at go to the wall (v.) under wall, n.
Loose Balls 148: Slick [Leonard] loved to work the officials. He threw bottles of rosin at the press table, and there would be a cloud of it hanging over the court.at work, v.
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