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Posted By: davidcycleback

I have a big box of Maravich documents, mostly boring accounting/income stuff. Most interesting are his lawyer's court document from two of Maravich's arrests I think from while he was still a player-- from what I read in the the documents (that was a disclaimer) both involved drinking, in one he drove a car into a parked car at night and the other he got into a brawl.

I sold on eBay a 1970s letter from the NBA asking Maravich for payment for his numerous on the court fines. Stapled to the letter was copies of the offended referees' official forms in which they handwrote what he did and when he did it.

About a month or so after I aquired these documents, I was at a dinner and was introduced to a woman who was a tax lawyer at one of those big accounting firms. I had no idea how to break the ice with a tax laywer, so naturally I mentioned my Pete Maravich tax documents and audit stuff (That's known as hit or miss conversation topic). She had no idea who Maravich was but it turned out that she (and likely others at the firm) did the taxes for the Seattle Supersonics management/owners. Though she wouldn't say who he/she was, she said she had a problem doing the taxes for one client. The problem was that his annual income had too many digits to fit one of the form. There literally weren't enough spaces. She said it's depressing when the margin of error in client's income is larger than her income.