Len Davidson is a lifelong basketball fan, as was his father.
“He wasn’t the kind of guy who did a whole lot with his family, but he loved basketball,” Davidson said. “It was like a bonding thing.”
In the early 1960s, Davidson’s father would take him to watch Wilt Chamberlain play for the Warriors, back when they were a Philly team. Afterward, they would go out for a hot dog together.
“We’d drive over Market Street from West Philly — the Warriors played at the Convention Hall in West Philadelphia — and we drive over Market Street and then we turn up Sixth Street. Off in the distance, I’d see this tiny red hot dog. You’re, like, six blocks away, and I’m 10 years old,” he said. “As you start getting closer and closer, the hot dog…
