With the NBA in an indefinite hiatus due to COVID-19, we continue our day-by-day look back at the history of the Philadelphia 76ers. We continue down our path into Sixers history every day as we look to fill the void left by the absence of basketball.
We take this edition of the history lesson back to 1983 to the Sixers battling the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1983 Eastern Conference Finals. Philadelphia big man Moses Malone did announce that the Sixers would go “Fo’ Fo’ Fo'” on their way to winning a championship. That went out the window when they fell to the Bucks in Game 4 while going for the sweep, but they still had a chance to eliminate Milwaukee in the next game.
May 18, 1983
The Bucks would not go down without a fight. They proved that in Game 4 when they battled to come away with a victory. Marques Johnson and Junior Bridgeman had a helluva game for the Bucks, but Philadelphia was just too much in this one.
Andrew Toney dropped 30 points and seven assists to lead the Sixers while Malone had 28 points and 17 rebounds and Julius Erving had 24 points and 10 rebounds in a 115-103 win. It allowed the Sixers to move on to the NBA Finals for the second consecutive season.
It set the Sixers up with a rematch in the Finals with the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia would have to bring their A-game in order to bring a title to the City of Brotherly Love. [lawrence-related id=31178,31171,31166]