Bob Costas talks professional basketball in St. Louis, including his thoughts on the unrealized potential of Marvin Barnes, outplaying Moses Malone & Julius Erving, his favorite and most famous Barnes story, trying to figure out the best comparison for Barnes on the basketball court--and why it's so hard to find that comparison, the extended version of the story when Marvin showed up to a game late, starting his career in the hockey league that "Slap Shot" is based on, the Silna brothers willing to trade all the money for a chance to be owners, how they were able to get the 1/7th clause--in perpetuity--added to their deal with the NBA, the time that Bob was LATE to call a game and the incredible reactions from the Spirit's Marvin Barnes & KMOX's Bob Hyland and what could've been with the ABA and the Spirits.

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