![]() ![]() ![]() Shows how little leverage the ABA had at the time.) My biggest issue was the NBA excluding ABA teams from a deep '76 rookie draft in which Johnny Davis (number twenty-two), Alex English (number twenty-three), Lonnie Shelton (number twenty-five) and Dennis Johnson (number twenty-nine) dropped to Round 2. (My thoughts: A bit of a raping so far, although it's nice that the Knicks got even more money to throw away at bad players. The Nets also had to pay the Knicks $4.8 million over ten years for violating their territory rights. ![]() Those teams would not receive TV money for three years, could not take part in the '76 college draft and would be called "expansion teams," but they were allowed to keep their players. Denver, New York, San Antonio and Indiana joined for a cost of $3.2 million per team. David Stern! 68 Here's what they settled, with my comments in parentheses:ฤก. Named Fred Fruth, who had some world-class negotiating sessions with the NBA's bright assistant commissioner - wait for it wait for it - Mr. The merger process was given a jolt when the ABA hired an antitrust attorney This gets my Greatest Summer Ever vote: our two hundredth Independence Day, the release of Jaws, the Montreal Olympics, the fictional graduation of Randy "Pink" Floyd's class at Lee High School and the ABA-NBA merger in the span of three months? Come on. This excerpt is from a chapter called "How The Hell Did We Get Here?" It's a breakdown of the ABA/NBA merger - not just why it happened, but why some of the wrinkles remain ridiculous to this day. ![]()
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