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Perhaps it was the time in 2004 when the owner of the Kentucky Colonels of what was called the American Basketball Association stopped paying the players.
unknown title 2009
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The American Basketball Association plays its first game.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2011
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Since the 1980-81 season, 45% of the league's coaches played in the NBA or now-defunct American Basketball Association, according to Stats Inc.
The NBA's Regular-Guy Coach Scott Cacciola 2011
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The American Basketball Association, founded in 1967, lasted less than a decade as an independent league but its destiny was never to replace the NBA.
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With so many pyrotechnics going off in the A's front office under Finley, Messrs. Green and Launius barely have a moment to mention that Finley also had flings as the owner of the California Golden Seals in the National Hockey League and of the Memphis Tams in the American Basketball Association.
Rebel in the Owner's Box Gerald Eskenazi 2010
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He said the toughest of all the lower-level basketball leagues was the American Basketball Association, where he played for the Kentucky Colonels in 2004.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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The American Basketball Association, for instance, had sufficient appeal following its launch in 1967 that the dominant National Basketball Association made a deal in 1976 to absorb four ABA teams -- a move that brought Julius "Dr. J" Erving and other stars to a wider audience.
A League of His Own 2009
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He said the toughest of all the lower-level basketball leagues was the American Basketball Association, where he played for the Kentucky Colonels in 2004.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Inside Basketball Jack Canfield 2009
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The two new area teams that started play in the minor American Basketball Association — the North Texas Fresh (who play in Fort Worth) and the Dallas Generals (whose home court is Fair Park Coliseum) — have already forged an intense rivalry, after having played their first game against one another on Saturday.
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As an overachieving 6-foot-2 guard with the San Antonio Spurs, Karl once took on most of the New York Nets in a brawl remembered in the old American Basketball Association as "the Easter Massacre."
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