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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.
Game rules were blended again. The NBA's ball was used in the first half and the ABA's in the second. The NBA's 24-second shot clock was used for the game, as was the ABA's 3-pointers. [27] The game was again televised by Television Sports. [28] Some NBA players did not participate because the league threatened them with fines and suspensions. [29]
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.
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 ...
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league founded in 1967. The ABA ceased to exist after merging with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976. In total, the league held nine all-star games, with all but the last being between the Western Division and the Eastern Division. In the final one, it was ...
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 ...
The following is a timeline of the organizational changes in the National Basketball Association (NBA), including contractions, expansions, relocations, and divisional realignment. The league was formed as the Basketball Association of America (BAA) in 1946 and took its current name in 1949, when it merged with the National Basketball League (NBL).
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. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] 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".