In a 1977 regular season game, Los Angeles Lakers’ Kermit Washington punched the Houston Rockets’ Rudy Tomjanovich in the face so hard that he fractured his skull and tasted spinal fluid leaking into ...
However, Houston head coach Rudy Tomjanovich gave Orlando credit, saying he was surprised with the result. "I was surprised. I told Brian Hill at the end of the series that we knew how close that was.