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The ABA tried to halt the Gervin deal, claiming it was detrimental to the league, but a judge would rule in the Spurs ' favor, and Gervin made his Spurs debut on February 7.
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ABA and tried
In the 1975 – 76 season, the 76ers acquired George McGinnis from the Indiana Pacers of the ABA ( after the Knicks tried to sign him, not knowing that the 76ers owned his rights ).
ABA commissioner Mike Storen tried to block the sale on the grounds that selling the team's last true star was not in the best interest of the league.
ABA and halt
Later in his career, Anslinger was scrutinized for insubordination by refusing to desist from an attempt to halt the ABA / AMA Joint Report on narcotic addiction, a publication edited by the sociology Professor Alfred R. Lindesmith of Indiana University.
ABA and Gervin
The early Spurs were led by ABA veteran James Silas, and the team would get stronger as the season went on as they twice took advantage of the Virginia Squires, acquiring Swen Nater, who would go on to win Rookie of the Year, in November, and " The Iceman " George Gervin in January.
During the 1974 ABA All-Star Weekend, rumors abounded that Gervin was about to be sold to the San Antonio Spurs.
George " The Iceman " Gervin ( born April 27, 1952 ) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in both the American Basketball Association ( ABA ) and National Basketball Association ( NBA ) for the Virginia Squires, San Antonio Spurs, and Chicago Bulls.
Gervin averaged at least 14 points per game in all 14 of his ABA and NBA seasons, and finished with an NBA career average of 26. 2 points per game.
After leaving college due to an altercation, Gervin was set to try out for the Virginia Squires of the ABA.
Halftime of the 1976 ABA All Star Game saw the first-ever Slam Dunk Contest, which was won by Julius Erving of the New York Nets ( who took off from the free throw line for his dunk ) over David Thompson of the Denver Nuggets, Artis Gilmore of the Kentucky Colonels, and George Gervin and Larry Kenon of the San Antonio Spurs.
ABA and deal
* Daniel Silna, co-owner of the former ABA team the Spirits of St. Louis who has profited from Tv revenue earned as part of the deal in which four ABA teams were merged into the NBA.
The ABA subsequently found that Laws ' deal constituted cash for comment but Jones ' did not.
However, in order to pay leftover debts in Minnesota, Shields sold Rookie of the Year Mel Daniels to the Indiana Pacers, a deal now reckoned as the most lopsided trade in ABA history.
ABA and claiming
The 1971-72 Nets finished the season at 44-40, making the 1972 ABA Playoffs by claiming third place in the Eastern Division, 24 games behind the 68-16 Kentucky Colonels.
ABA and was
He was a prominent contributor to the ABA book Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association.
During the expansion, Drexel was officially united with the former MCP Hahnemann University, creating the Drexel University College of Medicine in 2002 ; and in the fall of 2006, Drexel established its School of Law, which was fully accredited by American Bar Association ( ABA ) in 2011.
* August 8 – As part of the ABA-NBA merger agreement, a dispersal draft was conducted to assign teams for the players on the two ABA franchises which had folded.
By 1977, the American Bicycle Association ( ABA ) was organized as a national sanctioning body for the growing sport.
Bruckner's symphonies are all in four movements ( though he was unable to complete the finale of the Ninth ), starting with a modified sonata allegro form, a slow movement in ABA ’ B ’ A ’’ form ( except in the Study Symphony, the First and the Sixth ), a scherzo in 3 / 4 time, and a modified sonata allegro form finale.
First, the ABA decided that its existing Model Code of Professional Responsibility ( promulgated 1969 ) was a failure.
Boe was losing money on both the Islanders and the Nets even as the Islanders quickly surged to NHL prominence and the Nets became an ABA power.
The American Basketball Association ( ABA ) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967.
The original ABA was founded in 1967, competing with the well-established National Basketball Association, until the ABA – NBA merger in 1976.
One of the more significant long-term contributions of the ABA to professional basketball was to tap into markets in the southeast that had been collegiate basketball hotbeds ( including North Carolina, Virginia, and Kentucky ).
NBA great George Mikan was the first commissioner of the ABA, where he introduced both the 3-point line and the league's trademark red, white and blue basketball.
The franchise was established in 1966 as a founding member of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ), with trucking magnate Arthur J.
In all, they appeared in the ABA Finals five times in the league's nine year history: a feat that was never bettered by any other ABA franchise.
The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ) but changed its name to Rockets, because has made famous in the movie BASEKETball, they due not allow Larks in Denver.
Their new logo was a miner " discovering " an ABA ball.
A smothering defense was the team's image, as they held opponents less than 100 points an ABA record 49 times.
Although there was some initial skepticism in league circles regarding the potential success and talent levels of the incoming ABA teams, the Spurs would prove worthy of NBA inclusion during the 1976 – 77 season with a record of 44 – 38, good for a tie for fourth place overall in the Eastern Conference.
This was done in spite of significant handicaps the NBA imposed on the incoming ABA teams, limiting their draft picks and television revenues during their early time in the merged league.
Their victory was the first and only NBA title to be won by a former ABA team.
The Spurs have always worn black on the road and white at home, except from the 1973 – 76 ABA seasons and their first NBA season where the home uniform was always silver.
* Artis Gilmore-a Jacksonville University, ABA, and National Basketball Association All-Star center, was born in Chipley
ABA and league
In 1967, the league faced a new external threat with the formation of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ).
Following the 1976 season, the leagues reached a settlement that provided for the addition of four ABA franchises to the NBA, raising the number of franchises in the league at that time to 22.
Ultimately, four ABA teams were absorbed into the older league: the New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, and San Antonio Spurs.
In Earl Strom's memoir Calling the Shots, Strom conveys both the heady sense of being courted by a rival league with money to burn — and also the depression that set in the next year when he began refereeing in the ABA, with lesser players performing in inadequate arenas, in front of very small crowds.
For the 1976 – 77 season the Pacers were joined in the merged league by the New York Nets, Denver Nuggets and San Antonio Spurs of the ABA.
The league charged a $ 3. 2 million dollar entry fee to each former ABA team.
They would get no second chance to win an ABA league championship, as the ABA-NBA merger took place after the 1975 – 76 season.
The ABA first located its league office in Minneapolis, MN and the future looked bright for the Muskies, who shared the same offices as the league.
Daniels, Donnie Freeman and Les Hunter all represented the Muskies in the first ABA All Star Game and shooting guard Ron Perry finished fifth in the league in three point field goals made and attempted and fourth in three point field goal percentage.
However, Minnesota was not left without an ABA team as league champion Pipers ironically relocated to Minneapolis to play as the Minnesota Pipers for the 1968 – 69 ABA season.
For the 1970-71 season the league rebranded itself the Eastern Basketball Association, operating both as a professional northeastern regional league and as an unofficial feeder system to the NBA and ABA.
In 1979, Kunstler represented Marvin Barnes, an ABA and NBA basketball player, with past legal troubles and league discipline problems.
The Pacers had been an also-ran for most of the time since coming from the ABA, with only three winning seasons in their first 18 years in the league.
After his playing career, Mikan became one of the founding fathers of the American Basketball Association ( ABA ), serving as commissioner of that league, and was also vital for the forming of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
In order to lure basketball fans to his league, Mikan invented the league's characteristic red-white-and-blue ABA ball, which he thought more patriotic, better suited for TV, and more crowd-pleasing than the brown NBA ball, and instituted the three-point line.
The men's team has gone into an extended recess after being one of the most successful country-based basketball teams in Australia, winning the CVIBL title in 1994 and the 2000, 2001 and 2003 Big V Championship ABA titles under the tutelage of Russell Parker. In 2011 the men's team returned to the court in the Country basketball league.
Prior to the 1975-76 season a group of Maryland businessmen bought the troubled Memphis franchise ( which the ABA league officers had taken over midway through the previous season ) for $ 1 million and relocated it to Baltimore.
Erving helped legitimize the American Basketball Association ( ABA ), and was the best-known player in that league when it merged with the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) after the 1975 – 76 season.
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