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American Basketball Association

The American Basketball Association consisted of two distinct professional basketball leagues.

Table of contents 1 Original ABA 1.1 List of ABA Teams 1.2 ABA Championship Series Results 1.3 External links 2 ABA 2000 2.1 ABA teams that finished the 2001-02 season 2.2 Other ABA teams that played 2.3 Proposed ABA teams that never played 2.4 ABA Championship Series Results 2.5 External links

Original ABA

The original ABA was founded in 1967, competing with the more established, rival National Basketball Association until reaching an agreement of merger in 1976. Ultimately four ABA teams were absorbed into the older league: the New York Nets, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, and San Antonio Spurs. Two other clubs, the Kentucky Colonels and the Spirits of St. Louis[?] were disbanded upon the merger. A third, the Virginia Squires[?], had folded less than a month earlier, missing out on the opportunities a merger might provide.

The ABA distinguished itself from its older counterpart with a more wide-open style of offensive play as well as differences in rules (a 30-second shot clock as opposed to the NBA's 24, use of a 3-point basket, etc.) The free wheeling style of the ABA eventually caught on with fans, but the lack of a national television contract and protracted financial losses would spell doom for the ABA as an independent circuit.

List of ABA Teams

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