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The ABA–NBA merger was a major pro sports business maneuver in 1976 when the American Basketball Association (ABA) combined with the National Basketball Association (NBA), after multiple attempts over several years. The NBA and ABA had entered merger talks as early as 1970, but an antitrust suit filed by the head of the NBA players union ...
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.
The Virginia Squires folded in May following the end of the regular season, but before the conclusion of the 1976 ABA Playoffs, [5] due to them being unable to make a $75,000 league assessment one month before league merger talks with the NBA began. The 1976 ABA All-Star Game saw the first place Denver Nuggets come from behind to defeat the ABA ...
THE AMERICAN BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION was far from an altruistic venture. The league wasn't a charity created to give players who couldn't find a home in the NBA a gig. It wasn't there to reshape ...
The 1976 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1975–76 season. The tournament concluded with the New York Nets defeating the Denver Nuggets four games to two in the ABA Finals. This was the final year of the ABA. The ABA-NBA merger took place on June 17, 1976.
Moses Malone was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers from the Spirits of St. Louis.. On August 5, 1976, as a result of the ABA–NBA merger, the NBA hosted a dispersal draft to select players from the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis, the two American Basketball Association (ABA) franchises that were not included in the ABA–NBA merger.
The league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949. The histories of NBA franchises that were also members of the American Basketball League (ABL), National Basketball League (NBL), National Pro Basketball League (NPBL), and American Basketball Association (ABA) are also included.
He won an American Basketball Association (ABA) title with the Kentucky Colonels in 1975, remaining with the team until the NBA-ABA merger when the franchise folded in 1976.