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The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a men's professional basketball major league from 1967 to 1976. The ABA merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976, resulting in four ABA teams joining the NBA and the introduction of the NBA 3-point shot in 1979.
With the original 1970 ABA-NBA merger at hand, in addition to the merger still having the league be called the National Basketball Association combining the 17 NBA teams at the time (with the San Diego Rockets moving to Houston, Texas to become the Houston Rockets and the San Francisco Warriors moving to Oakland, California to become the Golden State Warriors not long after the initial ...
1974–75 NBA teams Eastern Western; Atlantic: Central: Midwest: Pacific: Boston Celtics: Atlanta Hawks: Chicago Bulls: Golden State Warriors: Buffalo Braves: Cleveland Cavaliers: Detroit Pistons: Los Angeles Lakers: New York Knicks: Houston Rockets: Kansas City–Omaha Kings: Phoenix Suns: Philadelphia 76ers: New Orleans Jazz* Milwaukee Bucks ...
While the ABA's nightly scoring average was a tad lower than the NBA's—117.4 to 108.9—it felt as if the upstart league was putting more points on the board, thanks primarily to what would ...
It was the ABA's first win against the NBA, as the ABA's Dallas Chaparrals had lost to the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks 106–103 the night before in the first ever matchup between the two leagues. On October 8, 1971, the Colonels hosted the Milwaukee Bucks and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at Freedom Hall in front of over 18,000 fans.
The ABA and NBA continued playing preseason exhibition games between their teams. The ABA won 16 of the 23 games, to 7 wins for the NBA. [ 1 ] Among those games was the Pacers' first game in Market Square Arena in which they defeated the Milwaukee Bucks 118–115 before a standing room only crowd of 17,287; Bob Dandridge had 46 points and ...
Other rules that set the league apart from the National Basketball Association (NBA) were a 30-second shooting clock, as opposed to 24, and a wider free throw lane of 18 feet instead of the NBA's then-standard 12; the NBA would later expand their free throw lane to 16 feet (a couple of feet shorter than the ABL's free throw lane) a few years ...
Lake Charles Corsairs – expansion team that did not begin play in 2012–2013 season; Lake Charles Hurricanes – expansion team that did not begin play; Lake City Kingdom Riders → Gulf Coast Kingdom Riders → Louisiana Kingdom Riders; Lake Erie Rockers; Lake Michigan Admirals – joined Premier Basketball League; Lakewood Panthers ...