You Tube Gold: Gorgeous NBA Video From 1964

Basketball: Los Angeles Lakers Jerry West (44) in action vs Philidelphia Warriors Wilt Chamberlain (13) at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. Los Angeles, CA 10/19/1961 | Set Number: X8140 TK3

Whoever restored this should make it a career.

The game of basketball has evolved mightily in whatever time period you’d like to look at. Bill Russell retired in 1969; Julius Erving showed up in the ABA in 1971. Magic and Bird showed up nine years later. Michael Jordan came along a few years after that.