New Here...Question about David Thompson from 1980

[fishermb]

Hey all, new to the board, thanks for having me!

I wanted to throw something out to the older Nuggets fans here. I've heard that with all the drug drama that was going on around 1980, David Thompson wrote an open apology letter to the Nuggets fans. I heard it was printed in the Denver Post, but couldn't find any record of it in there. Does anyone know anything more about this? Or better yet, even have a copy of this letter?

[Coach Sticky]

Hey man! Welcome! Where are you from?

and rock, this is your time to shine buddy

[fishermb]

Thanks for the welcome!

I'm actually down in Miami and working on a documentary, not a lot I can say right now other than DT being a big part of several scenes and this letter being an important part of one of them.

I've found a lot of mentions of this letter but so far no evidence of it actually existing, figured this would be the place to find out!

[fishermb]

Bueller? Bueller?

Thompson's autobiography actually says he wrote the letter to season ticket holders on his own personal stationary, so I don't think it was in the Post. Any ideas on someone actually having saved this letter?

[LotharBraunBrownBryant]

www.si.com/vault/1980/11/17/825147/flying-high-once-more-after-a-nightmarish-season-of-personal-and-physical-reverses-david-thompson-of-the-nuggets-is-now-his-old-soaring-and-scoring-self references it. It suggests he didn't write it of his own accord, but instead was asked to sign a letter someone else had written.

[fishermb]

Thanks for the reply, I've actually been in touch with the author of that article before, and he unfortunately didn't have the letter either. We know there is some inconsistency of who wrote the letter and what exactly it said, but nonetheless, I am still trying to find it!

[TNF]

I have been a Nuggets fan since the first season of the Rockets. I don't remember hearing about this.

DT woulda' coulda' shoulda' been Michael before Michael.

I was lucky to have a lady friend with free tix from work during the DT era. Saw half the home games he played for a couple of years.

Too rich too fast and coke killed his amazing career.

[fortcollinsnuggets]

Apr 23, 2016 15:17:49 GMT -5 TNF said:

I have been a Nuggets fan since the first season of the Rockets. I don't remember hearing about this.

DT woulda' coulda' shoulda' been Michael before Michael.

I was lucky to have a lady friend with free tix from work during the DT era. Saw half the home games he played for a couple of years.

Too rich too fast and coke killed his amazing career.

Do you live in Denver area? That's a long time being a fan . I loved those jerseys

[nuggetswy]

I was also a Nuggets fan from the beginning. I never saw a copy of an apology letter and most back then considered that he was ordered to either write or sign such a letter but that it never happened. But since we didn't have social media and relied only on the media which was significantly limited in terms of basketball coverage, nobody seemed to care. The world of basketball back then was something only a few fanatics followed. Most considered it a playground for a bunch of drug addicts. Many games weren't on TV at all. Newspapers often didn't publish an article-per-game average and that was for their hometown team. Off-season there might only be one article in your own paper that touched on your team.

I was 2,000 miles away from my Rockets/Nuggets and knew little except what I could hear on my crystal radio set that picked up most Nuggets radio broadcasts.

[fortcollinsnuggets]

Aug 3, 2017 8:39:50 GMT -5 nuggetswy said:

I was also a Nuggets fan from the beginning. I never saw a copy of an apology letter and most back then considered that he was ordered to either write or sign such a letter but that it never happened. But since we didn't have social media and relied only on the media which was significantly limited in terms of basketball coverage, nobody seemed to care. The world of basketball back then was something only a few fanatics followed. Most considered it a playground for a bunch of drug addicts. Many games weren't on TV at all. Newspapers often didn't publish an article-per-game average and that was for their hometown team. Off-season there might only be one article in your own paper that touched on your team.

I was 2,000 miles away from my Rockets/Nuggets and knew little except what I could hear on my crystal radio set that picked up most Nuggets radio broadcasts.

Newspapers in the Midwest and east  coast did even in those times but I could picture not many in West coast doing it. The state I'm From has always loved basketball and always was  a basketball friendly state