Why is there still an ABA after the NBA merges with the ABA?

1976!The NBA finally put it on its own track in 1976 after nearly a decade of competition with another professional basketball league in the United States, ABA (American Basketball Ascciaton). ABA was founded on February 2, 1967, its appearance is a bit like a group of children's fun game, at the beginning of its establishment, in order to increase the popularity of the league, ABA specially hired 20 years ago NBA famous center "giant" George McCan as president.

McCan's unique sense of basketball is unmatched by others, and he stands up to the conservative NBA with an open league stance. McCan's first event in office was to change the brown basketball to a red and white basketball tricolor ball. As a striking sign of the new alliance.

At the same time, the league is open to everyone who can play basketball, especially those who have not yet graduated from college. The move put pressure on the N.B.A., which had previously been dismissive of the ABA. Because the NBA rules at that time stated that only players who had completed four years after entering college were eligible to join the NBA league.

And in order to increase the excitement of the game. ABA adopted the three-point shot rule and a slam dunk game in the All-Star Game. At that time, the ABA game was characterized by more fast breaks, more passes, three points and dunks in various ways, as long as you can make moves, you can play to your heart's content.

These attracted many good players such as "Dr. J" Owen, "Super Spring-Legged" David Thompson, "Iceman" George Gwen and Moses Malone, and ABA also swept the United States with its tricolor ball. The battle between ABA and the NBA has led to a sharp increase in legal lawsuits over college players and players from both sides who have jumped ship with each other. After nine years of standoff, both sides were overwhelmed by the contract ** that had been raised due to competition.

Coupled with the fact that the ABA itself was not well managed, the three-color ball patent was not registered, and the economy was sluggish, it was almost unsustainable by 1976, while the NBA had grown to 18 teams, so the two presidents Debsgal (ABA) and O'Brien (the third president of the NBA) negotiated that the NBA annexed ABA in the name of merger and took over 3 of the teams, (that is, the current Pacers, Denver Gold Nuggets, Marat and New Jersey Nets). After the NBA formed a large-scale basketball market, it also absorbed the essence from ABA, began to pay attention to spectacle, no longer excluded dunks, and also implemented a 3-point system since 1979. It can be said that without ABA, there would not be such a wonderful NBA game as today.

The NBA and ABA reached an agreement in 1976 to complete the merger.

In June 1970, in the third year of the ABA League's existence, the NBA Board of Directors voted 13-4 to approve the acquisition of the ABA.

After the NBA League passed its decision to merge the ABA League in 1970, the NBA Players' Union filed a lawsuit in April 1970 against the possible monopoly of the industry that the merger would bring. It is precisely because of the existence of ABA that the NBA and ABA will continue to offer higher prices when signing players. On February 3, 1976, the case was finally closed, and the league agreed to allow the player to become a free agent when his contract expired, but the original team had the right of first refusal.

The incident was an obstacle in the merger negotiations, but the ABA-NBA merger did not stop with the case.

After years in the making, the two parties finally reached an agreement in 1976 to complete the merger.

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NBA is an abbreviation for National Basketball Association (National Basketball Association). Founded on June 6, 1946. When it was founded, it was called BAA, or Basketball Association of America, and was founded by the owners of 11 ice hockey arenas and gymnasiums to keep their gyms from being idle outside of ice hockey games.

The BAA was founded with 11 teams: the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Washington Capitol, Chicago Bucks, Cleveland Rebels, Detroit Falcons, Philadelphia Warriors, Pittsburgers, Providence Steam, St. Louis Bombers, and Toronto Eskimos. In 1949, the BAA annexed another league (NBL) at the time and renamed it the NBA.

In the 1949-50 season, there were 17 teams in the NBA. In 1976, the NBA annexed the National Basketball Association (ABA), increasing the number of teams to 22. The Dallas Mavericks joined in 1980, the Charlotte Hornets and Miami Heat joined the Orlando Magic and the Minnesota Timberwolves, two Canadian teams joined the NBA, and the Toronto Raptors and Vancouver Grizzlies brought the NBA's total to 29 teams.

The NBA stands for National Basketball Association

ABA stands for American Basketball Association, both of which mean associations, but the NBA stands for American Professional Basketball League.

In 1977, the NBA and ABA merged to form the current NBA

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The birth of the national emblem embodies the wisdom and hard work of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin of the National Emblem Design Group of the Department of Construction of Tsinghua University, and Zhang Ding of the National Emblem Design Group of the National Beiping Art School (changed to ** Academy of Fine Arts in 1950).

The ABA and the NBA are in a competitive relationship.

The NBA and the NBA league compete with each other, and the ABA league differs from her rival NBA in terms of openness, freedom, and more emphasis on offense, even including the use of 30 seconds of different offensive times and three-point circles.

Also, the ABA league uses a colored ball of red, blue, and white instead of the traditional brown leather basketball used in the NBA. In 1976, it was annexed to another well-established league, the NBA.

You can understand it this way, in the early days, in the basketball world in the United States, there were multiple professional basketball leagues. Among them, the NBA and ABA are the event organizations with high visibility and competitive level. For example, many basketball celebrities have actually played for ABA.

Like "Big O" and so on.

In order to promote the overall development of American basketball, the NBA absorbed ABA to form a new "American Professional Basketball League", which is unified and known as the NBA.

Since then, the NBA has been promoted globally, driven by the "global expansion route" of previous president David Stern. Among them, the selection of Yao Ming in 02 and the rise of the NBA's overseas regular season have contributed to the rapid increase in the popularity of the NBA in the world.

At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the U.S. national basketball team called on NBA players to play for their country, and for a time attracted God, magic, big bird and other athletes representing the highest level of global basketball to form the most fantastic "dream team" in history. The NBA began to become popular all over the world.