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unusual facts about ABA-NBA merger



2003 Enyimba International F.C. season

Back home in Aba and Abia state, the club financier and state Governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu declared a public holiday in honor of The Peoples Elephant.

2012–13 Liga ABA

2012–13 ABA League Final Four will be held in Laktaši Sports Hall, Laktaši.

Aba Daba Honeymoon

On a 1978 (3rd season) episode of Laverne & Shirley, the leads performed at a talent show singing "Aba Daba Honeymoon" in chimp suits on roller skates.

Aba Dunner

Aba attended Yesodey Hatorah School, completing his high school education at the Gateshead Jewish Boarding School, where his classmates included Rabbi Avrohom Gurwicz, Rabbi Matisyohu Salomon, and Rabbi Chaim Kaufman, all of whom went on to become leading figures in orthodox Jewish education in the UK and beyond.

Aba also established close links with many of the leading rabbinic luminaries of the time, whom he consulted for advice, and whom he offered his services - men such as Rabbi Leib Gurwicz, Rabbi Avrohom Babad, Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner, Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, Rabbi Eliezer Menachem Schach, and Rabbi Yosef Kahaneman, the Ponovezh Rav.

Abaúj County

According to Anonymus, during the reign of St. Stephen the Aba family (the family of Sámuel Aba who later became king) had properties in this area.

Akpan Utuk

When General Benjamin Adekunle decided to invade Aba instead of Owerri he was relieved and decided to stay back and let Major Timothy Onwuatuegwu handle the Nigerians.

Andy Patterson

In 1990 Andy Patterson had him reclassified as a single "A" junior pro with the ABA and raced the ABA U.S Nationals in Lemoore, California on April 21, 1990.

Balcha Safo

Balcha Aba Nefso (Gurage and Oromo: ባልቻ ጻፎ; 1863 – 1936), also known by his title as Dejazmach Balcha, was an accomplished Ethiopian general, who served in both the First and Second Italo-Ethiopian Wars.

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Two of the Association's early presidents--James O. Broadhead and Henry Hitchcock --met with other lawyers in Saratoga, New York, in 1878 and founded the American Bar Association (ABA).

Billy Keller

Along with the likes of George McGinnis and college teammate Rick Mount, he helped lead the Pacers to three ABA Championships in '70, '72 and '73 and ABA Final appearances in '69 and '75.

Bob Haro

In 1978, Haro teamed up with R. L. Osborn to form the very first freestyle BMX team, which made its debut at ABA's Winternationals in Chandler, AZ.

Borsod County

Several monasteries were founded in the region, in Százd (by the Aba clan, 11th century), Boldva (by the queen, 12th century), Kács (by the Örsúr clan), Tapolca (by the Miskolc clan), Bélháromkút (by the Bishop of Eger, after 1232).

Brennan Marion

He is now the Director of Player Strength and Conditioning for the Jackson Showboats of the American Basketball Association (ABA).

Bubba Harris

He was laid up for approximately three weeks until the weekend of March 26 of the ABA Winternationals in Phoenix, Arizona.

Capture of Owerri

In July 1968 the Nigerian General and commander of the 3rd Marine Division Benjamin Adekunle began making plans for an invasion of Aba, Owerri, and Umuahia in a military operation he nicknamed Operation OAU, Adekunle boldly stated that he would be able to capture all three cities in 2 weeks.

Only two days before Owerri's capture the Biafran capital, Umuahia, fell to Gen. Mohammed Shuwa's 1st Division and the capital was moved to Aba.

Charles Fincher

In 2008, Fincher was commissioned by the ABA’s Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys (CASA) to paint a fantasy illustration of Constitutional law professor Erwin Chemerinsky as a shortstop with the Chicago Cubs, the scholar's favorite team.

Chevy Chase Bank

According to ABA routing information it was based in Laurel, Maryland, while the bank's headquarters offices were in downtown Bethesda, Maryland, at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and East-West Highway.

Chico Rage

They began participating in the ABA in 2009 and currently play a majority of their home games at Hamilton High School in Hamilton City, California.

Federal Medical Center, Abeokuta

The Federal Medical Centre (FMC) Abeokuta came into existence on 21 April, 1983, when the state hospital, Idi-Aba, was handed over to the federal government by the then state Governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba for development into a federal tertiary health institution for the people of Ogun State and Nigerians in general.

Frank Post

One most notable instance was during the 1981 ABA Summernationals in Amarillo, Texas in which Post thought Kevin McNeal had collided deliberately with him in the first turn.

Gary DeBacker

On September 19, 1982 in Waterford, Michigan during an 1982 ABA Leukemia "Race for Life" event that was memorial race dedicated to the memory of Todd Kingsbury (The Todd Kingsbury Memorial Race), a boy who had died of leukemia in 1981, Seven year old Gary DeBacker gave his 1981 Michigan District #1 No.1 trophy he won to Bob Kingbury, the deceased boy's father because if Todd did not stop racing due to his illness, he would have been Michigan District #1 champion and not him.

Gary Ellis

Pro title focusing on the ABA's denial of awarding Christophe Lévêque the title.

Hermosillo Seris

The Hermosillo Seris (Seris being one of the indigenous peoples of the Sonoran Desert region of North America) was an American Basketball Association (ABA) team based in Hermosillo, Mexico.

Houston Mavericks

Willie Somerset and DeWitt Menyard of the Mavericks played in the ABA All Star Game.

Intesa Sanpaolo Bank Albania

ABA was established in September 1998, by the Albanian-American Enterprise Fund (AAEF) a private investment fund established by the United States government under the SEED Act of 1989, to assist Albania in its transition to a market economy.

Julie Giroux

Giroux is a Member of American Bandmasters Association (ABA)and an honorary brother of the Omicron Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at West Virginia University.

Kentucky Colonels

They were equally famous for publicity stunts, their most famous coming in 1968 when Penny Ann Early, the first licensed female horse racing jockey, was signed to appear in an ABA game (albeit for a few seconds).

Kentucky Travelers

They are based in Louisville (and affiliated with the ABA's official development league, the Louisville Basketball League), but play all their games on the road as the ABA's official travel team.

Knicks–Nets rivalry

The Nets were originally established in 1966 as a founding member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), to be named the New York Americans, and league had intended for the team to play at the 69th Regiment Armory in Manhattan.

Luke Kerr

Kerr has a background in professional sport and is a qualified full England ABA boxing coach, FA and UEFA football licensed coach as well as a tutor and assessor, he spent several years in the British Army as a PTI (Physical Training Instructor), where he represented the British Army at both boxing and football.

Marvin Webster

Nicknamed "The Human Eraser" and "Marvin the Magnificent", he played one season in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and nine in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Denver Nuggets (1975–77), Seattle SuperSonics (1977–78), New York Knickerbockers (1978–84) and Milwaukee Bucks (1986–87).

National Pedal Sport Association

The first joint NSPA-ABA sanctioned race was held on March 19, 1988 at the NSPA track in Ocoee, Florida.

Nobility and royalty of the Kingdom of Hungary

Rhédey, Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (princes, count palatines, dukes, counts, Count Palatine of the Sacred Palace of the Lateran, also Polish nobles - Ostoja coat of arms) - Genus Aba

Onyekachi Okonkwo

Onyekachi Donatus Okonkwo or simply Tico (born 13 May 1982 in Aba, Nigeria) is a Nigerian football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays for South African side Mpumalanga Black Aces.

Ozzie Silna

After an attempt to buy the Detroit Pistons fell short, the Silnas purchased the ABA's Carolina Cougars franchise with the expectation of moving it into the NBA with the impending merger of the two leagues.

Pete Loncarevich

The King of Los Angeles was a pro series of seven races held at ABA tracks in the Southern California/Los Angeles area hastily put together on the same weekend to counter the debut and emergence of a new and as it turned out short live sanctioning body called the International Cycling Association (ICA) (which was founded in part by Pro racer Greg Hill) which was holding its first event, the Cowboy National in Dallas, Texas during that same weekend.

Ranjit Singh Gujjar

A research paper which he co-wrote, titled "A Rapid Method for Estimation of Abscisic Acid and Characterization of ABA Regulated Gene in Response to Water Deficit Stress from Rice", was published in volume 6, issue 3 of the American Journal of Plant Physiology.

Robert MacCrate

In the late 1980s MacCrate served as president of both the New York State Bar Association and the American Bar Association ("ABA").

Shanaze Reade

She won her first professional race in the Girls Pro at the American Bicycle Association (ABA) Winternationals in Phoenix, Arizona on 1 April 2006.

Shreveport-Bossier Mavericks

In the team's inaugural ABA season in Beaumont the Mustangs proved to be a force to be reckoned with.

Stu Inman

He drafted Bill Walton, Geoff Petrie, Larry Steele, Lloyd Neal, Lionel Hollins, Bobby Gross, Wally Walker and Johnny Davis, signed Dave Twardzik after the American Basketball Association folded, and selected Maurice Lucas in the ABA dispersal draft.

Toby Henderson

The ABA Summernationals in Amarillo, Texas was very likely his first race for Raleigh since it was for Jeff Bottema.

U/Tex Wranglers

It was lopsided, as the Wranglers swept the Redmanizers (the first in PBA finals history as well) as Jones and Glenn McDonald, who came in on the 5th game of the conference to replace erstwhile import and ex-ABA player Henry Williams, simply took over.

Willie Porter

Willie William Porter (born July 3, 1942 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina) is a retired professional basketball power forward who played two seasons (1967–68) in the American Basketball Association (ABA) as a member of the Oakland Oaks, Pittsburgh Pipers, Minnesota Pipers and the Houston Mavericks.


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