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2 unusual facts about American Basketball Association


1972–73 New York Islanders season

So, despite having expanded to 14 teams just two years before, the NHL hastily awarded a Long Island-based franchise to clothing manufacturer Roy Boe, owner of the American Basketball Association's New York Nets.

Spectrum Industries

Cygnet Films made promotion films and training films for a variety of customers from the startup American Basketball Association to the United States Armed Forces.


Bellevue Blackhawks

The Bellevue Blackhawks were a professional basketball team affiliated with the Continental Basketball Associaiton from 2003–04 and the American Basketball Association (ABA) from 2004–07, and owned by former attorney and KONG-TV (Seattle) President and General Manager Michael Tuckman.

Brennan Marion

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

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.

Jan van Breda Kolff

The son of coaching great Butch van Breda Kolff, V.B.K., as he was referred to, played from 1975 to 1983 for the Denver Nuggets, Kentucky Colonels, and Virginia Squires in the American Basketball Association, and the New York/New Jersey Nets in the National Basketball Association.

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.

Loose Balls

The book, a history of the original American Basketball Association, was written by sportswriter Terry Pluto, although much of his writing is limited to introductions and summaries of each season.

Louisville Gardens

The facility has served the city of Louisville and Jefferson County in a variety of ways during the past century, from utilization as an actual armory to American Basketball Association's Kentucky Colonels basketball games, to various wrestling events, concerts, political rallies, and Hurricane Katrina flood relief have also been staged there.

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).

Pikeville, Kentucky

The Expo Center will be home to the East Kentucky Energy of the American Basketball Association starting in fall 2010, and starting in spring 2011 it became home to the Kentucky Drillers of the Continental Indoor Football League.

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.

WKAT

In 2005-06, WKAT was the radio station that carried games of the Florida Pit Bulls, a franchise in the American Basketball Association owned in part by NBA all-star Tim Hardaway.


see also

Floridian

Miami Floridians, a professional basketball franchise in the original American Basketball Association

Mike Storen

In April 1969, Storen and others including future Governor of Kentucky John Y. Brown, Jr., bought the American Basketball Association's Kentucky Colonels franchise.

Nater

Swen Nater (born 1950), Dutch basketball player in the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association

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.