http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/02/sports/pro-basketball-memorable-atlanta-debut-for-manning.html halfway down talks a bunch about it. It was Indy and Javie.
22-3 at home, that's .880. Seattle had no problem generating attendance in Whitsitt's last season there. Who knew what was to come. Ackerley, the owner who fired him a couple of months after this game, was the same moron who then forced the new arena's footprint to be too small to hold a hockey rink. That was the excuse later to move.
It actually took place during a time out as I recall. So the mikes were off. The TV, if any that night, were on commercial break. Nowadays, of course, there'd be dozens of homemade cell phone videos but back in the dark ages of mid-90s, it appears a historic moment went undocumented. Yes, it was Indiana. I remember Rice's write-up in Rip Citymag about the play between "Clifford of Connecticut" (Cliff Robinson) and "Dastardly Dale Davis". May have been a tad embarrassing when Dastardly Dale Davis became a Blazer.
Says the man who kept asking Washington for Indiana's footage. If the Pacers had "pacervision" like Portland had "blazervision" it's possible it was caught on camera, since they filmed during timeouts (no commercials on a pay-per-view channel)
Listen you pricks....... They have been trying to acquire said footage way before I came around..... nada!
