Baltimore Bullets. His final season was 1973-1974, playing for the San Diego Conquistadors of the defunct American Basketball Association . --- Information from: Los Angeles Times, http://www.latimes.com
and big Afros. The dispute stems from a sweetheart deal that's enjoyed by the former owners of a defunct American Basketball Association team -- and despised by current owners of four NBA franchises. HALL OF FAME: 2012 CLASS Inductees include
not objected to his signing with Tennessee because he wanted him. When he turned pro, Haywood led the American Basketball Association in scoring and rebounding as a rookie and was named the Most Valuable Player of the regular season and the
this was truly a goodbye. Goodbye to a journey that began in 1977 when the Nets, twice champions of the American Basketball Association , landed in New Jersey after they were merged into the NBA. Goodbye to a journey that included 22 losing
former coach, Allen. The Twilight After retiring in 1972, Rupp became president of the Memphis Tams of the American Basketball Association and vice chairman of the board for the Kentucky Colonels, another ABA team. He died at age 76 in Lexington
checked in with 2:06 remaining, and when he made a jumper from the left corner. NOTES: New Jersey wore its American Basketball Association blue jerseys for the first of the five Hardwood Classics Nights the organization has scheduled for this season
name, so I???m happy,?? he said. The Nets started in 1967 as the New Jersey Americans in the former American Basketball Association before moving to Long Island a year later and being renamed the New York Nets , which featured a young Julius
front office of the short-lived Salt Lake City Prospectors. And before that, when the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association moved from Los Angeles in 1970 to give the state its first pro basketball team, Grant was one of the first
checked in with 2:06 remaining, and when he made a jumper from the left corner. NOTES: New Jersey wore its American Basketball Association blue jerseys for the first of the five Hardwood Classics Nights the organization has scheduled for this season
Friday were five direct elections, who will serve as the initial 2012 inductees: Mel Daniels, voted by the American Basketball Association Committee; Don Barksdale from the Early African-American Pioneers Committee; Lidia Alexeeva from the