Remember the ABA

The basketball preseason is here again. It seems just like yesterday the finals were on television, and the NBA season was ending. But it is starting and the preseason rolls on. Today’s FamSite has a basketball flavor to it, but it is about a piece of the sports history. There was once upon a time a league that gave the mighty NBA a real run for its money. Today’s FamSite looks at the American Basketball Association.

The site is called Remember the ABA. This online tribute to a league that lasted from 1967 to 1976 is one filled with nostalgia and lots of sports trivia and data. Some of the biggest stars of the game came from the ABA, such as Julius “Dr. J” Irving, Rick Barry, and Moses Malone. Four of the teams are still active today (San Antonio, Denver, New York (aka New Jersey), and Indiana) as members of the NBA. Here you can relive the excitement of this maverick league which used a red, white, and blue basketball and where above the rim play was the norm, and find out how a league which folded over 25 years ago is still a force in the worlds of sports today.

Enjoy your visit here today, and be sure to pass this site on to your favorite sports fan. They will be glad you did.

http://www.geocities.com/~arthurh/