Soul Power: The Legend of the American Basketball Association

Big Carolina Cougars fan here...went to far less games than I would have liked but listened to them on the radio pretty religiously and followed the league. Even as a boy I realized that it was a gathering of misfits, ne'er do wells, off-kilter and off-color athletes and I loved that.
 
donbosco said:
Big Carolina Cougars fan here...went to far less games than I would have liked but listened to them on the radio pretty religiously and followed the league. Even as a boy I realized that it was a gathering of misfits, ne'er do wells, off-kilter and off-color athletes and I loved that.
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USFL ish
 
Will have to check this one out.

And would the USFL have survived in some form if Trump had never gotten involved? Maybe, maybe not, but he definitely made it die faster.
 
So there was family in Indianapolis that owned an ABA franchise
When the Leagues merged they got MJ Air Jordan like sweetheart deal that gives them a % of NBA profits for ever
I am too lame to find a link
 
The last ABA game--in 1976--New York Nets vs the Denver Nuggets, was pretty much a match-up of Julius Erving's offense against Bobby Jones' defense. Jones played great, but Erving may have had the greatest game in basketball history when taking into consideration who was guarding him and that it was for a league championship.
 
donbosco said:
Big Carolina Cougars fan here...went to far less games than I would have liked but listened to them on the radio pretty religiously and followed the league. Even as a boy I realized that it was a gathering of misfits, ne'er do wells, off-kilter and off-color athletes and I loved that.
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They had a good idea for the time of bringing in players and coaches who were known locally. Bones McKinney was the first coach. Former Duke player Bob Verga was the first star. That first team had Larry Miller, Doug Moe, Bull Bunting, Gene Littles (High Point University), and Randy Mahaffey (Clemson). The following year George Lehman (Campbell), Lonnie Kluttz (NC A&T), Frank Card (South Carolina State), and Vann Williford (NC State) joined the roster. The year after that Randy Denton (Duke), Warren Davis (NC A&T), and Tom Owens (South Carolina) were added to the roster. In the 1972-73 season, Larry Brown took over as coach and Billy Cunningham (league MVP that year), Dennis Wuycik, and Steve Previs joined the team, along with former Duke player Mike Lewis.

That 1972 team had 9 players who advanced double figures in points!
 
I lived in Roanoke Virginia in 1971 and Dr. J and the Virginia Squires played there. They split their home games between Roanoke, Hampton Richmond and Norfolk. Saw the good Dr. do some dunking.
My first basketball was a red white and blue ABA ball. Outdoor only, rubber. But I wore that sucker out.
 
mpaer said:
So there was family in Indianapolis that owned an ABA franchise
When the Leagues merged they got MJ Air Jordan like sweetheart deal that gives them a % of NBA profits for ever
I am too lame to find a link
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Link:

The St. Louis ABA Team? -- Total payout about $800M, because of a term that gave them 2% of the NBA's TV revenue, in PERPETUITY. Needless to say, this deal greatly increased in value once the NBA boomed. But in 1976, 2% of TV revenue was all but an afterthought. And the NBA realized they had to "buy out" this deal in 2014 because it turned out to be way too lucrative for the former owners of the St. Louis ABA franchise.
 
05C40 said:
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The St. Louis ABA Team? -- Total payout about $800M, because of a term that gave them 2% of the NBA's TV revenue, in PERPETUITY. Needless to say, this deal greatly increased in value once the NBA boomed. But in 1976, 2% of TV revenue was all but an afterthought. And the NBA realized they had to "buy out" this deal in 2014 because it turned out to be way too lucrative for the former owners of the St. Louis ABA franchise.
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You da bomb 05C40
 
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