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Top 15 Super Bowl Sunday Performances In NBA History

By Phil Watson

Feb 6, 2016; Santa Clara, CA, USA; General view of the Blue Angels during a fly over at Levi's Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports
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1970’s: Rick Barry #24 of the Golden State Warriors shoots with his unorthodox freethrow style during an NBA game circa 1970’s. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1970 NBAE (Photo by Walter Iooss Jr./NBAE via Getty Images)
1970’s: Rick Barry #24 of the Golden State Warriors shoots with his unorthodox freethrow style during an NBA game circa 1970’s. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and/or using this Photograph, user is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. Mandatory Copyright Notice: Copyright 1970 NBAE (Photo by Walter Iooss Jr./NBAE via Getty Images) /

8. Rick Barry, San Francisco Warriors at St. Louis Hawks, Jan. 15, 1967

Rick Barry, the San Francisco Warriors’ second-year forward, was tearing through the NBA in 1966-67, but he had a big night spoiled at St. Louis’ Kiel Auditorium on the same day the first Super Bowl was played.

Barry finished with 48 points, but it was the Hawks who came away with a 114-112 win.

San Francisco fell to 29-17 but still firmly held first place in the Western Division. St. Louis snapped a three-game skid and got back to 19-24 behind 26 points from Zelmo Beaty and 24 from Lou Hudson.

St. Louis led 65-55 at the half, but the Warriors battled back to take a 91-89 lead into the final 12 minutes.

Barry led the NBA in scoring in 1966-67—the first person not named “Wilt Chamberlain” to do so since Bob Pettit in 1958-59, the year before Chamberlain joined the NBA.

He averaged 35.6 points, 9.2 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game, but the Warriors fell short in the NBA Finals to Wilt and the Philadelphia 76ers.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr, meanwhile, was on his way to earning the first Super Bowl MVP award in the Pack’s 35-10 victory of the Kansas City Chiefs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

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