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The 1973 ABA All-Star Game was a syndicated telecast with Andy Musser [12] and Alex Hannum providing the play–by–play and color commentary respectively. For the 1973–74 season, the ABA signed a television contract with the Hughes Television Network. [13] The first game under Hughes' contract was the 1974 ABA All-Star Game on January 30.
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 ABA had a far faster pace than the NBA, and this carried over into the NBA after the merger; today's NBA game is largely derived from the ABA. [104] [105] Longtime Denver Nuggets head coach and ABA alum Doug Moe, who also coached the Philadelphia 76ers, has commented, "The NBA now plays our (the ABA's) kind of basketball". [106]
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CBS' highest-rated NBA game (and the only NBA game that scored more than 20 rating points for the network) was Game 7 of the 1988 NBA Finals between the Lakers and the Detroit Pistons. By the end of its coverage, CBS' NBA ratings had been mostly respectable, with the lowest-rated Final after 1982 scoring 12.3 (three times), a mark higher than ...
What is the NBA Finals schedule? Game 1: Celtics won 107-89 on Thursday, June 6, at TD Garden in Boston Game 2: Sunday, June 9, at 8 p.m. ET at TD Garden in Boston
The NBA on ESPN is the branding used for the presentation of National Basketball Association (NBA) games on the ESPN family of networks. The ESPN cable network first televised NBA games from 1982 until 1984, and has been airing games currently since the 2002–03 NBA season. ESPN2 began airing a limited schedule of NBA games in 2002.