Forgotten NBA stars from the merger to the Lottery era

As time passes and the talent in the NBA gets better and better, we tend to only remember the very best players of the yesteryears — the superstars, the members of the NBA 75 and All-Decade teams. With this list, we're paying homage to 20 stars from the mid-1970s-to-mid-1980s that you may have forgotten about.

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