Former professional basketball player and Olympic gold medalist Spencer Haywood shows an American Basketball Association glass ball with himself and his teammates depicted at his Las Vegas home Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

FILE - Philadelphia 76ers' Darrell Dawkins shoves Portland Trail Blazers coach Jack Ramsay after Ramsay tried to break up a fight on the floor between Dawkins and several other Blazers during the NBA basketball playoffs in Philadelphia on May 26, 1977. (AP Photo/Gene Puskar, File)

FILE - Basketball star Spencer Haywood leaves U.S. district court in Los Angeles on Jan. 8, 1971, with attorney Al Ross, left, and president Sam Schulman of the Seattle Super Sonics of the NBA after a judge ruled in effect for and against him in his law suit against the NBA. The ruling permits Haywood to resume play with the SuperSonics, but continues a temporary restraining order against the NBA to give Haywood's attorneys time to file a cause of action which would require evidence of anti-trust violation. (AP Photo/Wally Fong, File)

FILE - Los Angeles Lakers Jerry West, right, passes the ball Monday night, April 28, 1970, during game with the New York Knickerbockers at New York's Madison Square Garden. Covering West are Knicks Willis Reed (19), left, and Walt Frazier (10), center. (AP Photo, File)

Former professional basketball player and Olympic gold medalist Spencer Haywood in front of his basketball memorabilia at his Las Vegas home Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. If there was a decade when the NBA nearly disintegrated under the weight of its own problems, the 1970s was that decade. Haywood said fights broke out essentially "every other night, and for no real reason." (AP Photo/Ellen Schmidt)

FILE - Boston's Dave Cowens, left, Charlie Scott (11) and John Havlicek team up on Paul Westphal, of the Phoenix Suns, as they try to go for a rebound during the first period of an NBA championship game at the Boston Garden, June 4, 1976. The longest game yet at the NBA Finals happened between the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns with the series tied at 2 apiece. (AP Photo/Peter Southwick, File)

FILE - Spectators in foreground watch Buffalo Braves Marvin Barnes, left, battle for the loose ball with Golden State Warrior E.C. Coleman during the first quarter of action in the Oakland Coliseum Arena, March 21, 1978. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

FILE - Boston Celtics John Havlicek on the way to a basket as New York Nets Tim Bassett tries to block the shot in their game at Uniondale, N.Y., Dec. 20, 1976. (AP Photo/Harry Harris, File)

FILE - Earvin "Magic" Johnson, second from left, holds a Los Angeles Lakers uniform at New York's Plaza Hotel, Monday, June 26, 1979, where he was selected by the Lakers in the first round of the National Basketball Association draft. "Magic" is joined by NBA Commissioner Larry O'Brien, second from right, and by his parents. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

FILE - Spencer Haywood (24) of the Seattle SuperSonics drives around Sidney Wicks of the Portland Trail Blazers as he drives toward the basket during their NBA exhibition game at the Forum in Los Angeles, Calif., Oct. 7, 1972. (AP Photo/Harold Filan, File)