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Robertson sought through his lawsuit to block any merger of the NBA with the American Basketball Association (ABA), to end the option clause that bound a player to a single NBA team in perpetuity, to end the NBA's college draft binding a player to one team, and to end restrictions on free-agent signings. The suit also sought damages for NBA ...
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 ...
The ABA distinguished itself from its older counterpart with a more wide-open, flashy style of offensive play, as well as differences in rules — a 30-second shot clock (as opposed to the NBA's 24-second clock, though the ABA did switch to the 24 second shot clock for the 1975–76 season) and use of a three-point field goal arc, pioneered in ...
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 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 NBA would also allow for the "hardship draft" to exist under that nature for a few years before abolishing that effort by the 1976 NBA draft in relation to the NBA-ABA merger in exchange for allowing college underclassmen (and later, high school players during a certain period of time) to join the rest of the draft eligible players so long ...
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a professional basketball league that operated from the 1967–68 season until it ceased to exist with the ABA–NBA merger in 1976. The ABA presented a variety of annual awards and honors to recognize its players and executives. There were six awards presented by the ABA.
The Indiana Pacers started in the ABA, but the NBA doesn't recognize that history. Indianapolis is a fitting place for the league to make it right. 2024 NBA All-Star Game is here.