If you are stressed about NBA “back-to-back” games, and believe the NBA didn’t exist before David Stern took over as Commissioner, check this Philadelphia 76ers’ eight-game road trip at the end of the 1963-64 season:
Mar. 11 — Won at St. Louis.
Mar. 12 – Lost at Cincinnati.
Mar. 13 – Lost to Detroit at Scranton PA.
Mar. 14 – Won over Baltimore at Yardley PA.
Mar. 15 – Lost at Los Angeles (after “the old Yardley PA to LA overnighter” — !!!)
Mar. 16 – Won at San Francisco.
Mar. 17 – Lost at Los Angeles
Mar. 18 – Lost at San Francisco (final game of regular season)
To top it off, the games on either side of the trip were away, too, a March 8 loss at New York and a Mar. 22 loss at Cincinnati in the first game of the playoffs. All this took place between home dates of March 7 and – 17 nights later – March 24.

Philadelphia 76ers  won the  two home games in the playoffs and lost the three at Cincinnati … Cincinnati had played March 12,14, and 15 and then got a week off before the first playoff date March 22 while Philadelphia finished up with the killer, eight-game, coast-to-coast road trip which wound up way out on the West Coast. ###