Big fan of the ABA.....long live the legend of the ABA...I would love to see the NBA use the ABA basketball during their all star game..KEEP the memory alive...peace....
@randquadrozzi5850 Жыл бұрын
Yes The ABA was cool.
@kenneth7826 Жыл бұрын
@@randquadrozzi5850 your statement is so true.....ABA!!!!!!!
@RayManzarekRocks3 ай бұрын
Me and 88 other fans attended the final game in Houston Mavericks history. Beat the Nets 149-132. The crowd was deafening. Yep, just another great moment in ABA history.
@derricksutton2667 жыл бұрын
hope more of the great ABA games become available what great players and memories
@delvindelvintumbling84525 жыл бұрын
ABA forever
@SD1Chargers7 жыл бұрын
I live in San Diego and grew up watching all these dudes come through San Diego to play the Conquistadors! Zelmo Beaty, Willie Wise, George McInnis, Dan Issel, Mack Calvin, Warren Jabali, Billy Cunningham, Louie Dampier and on and on and on...saw them all from the front row in San Diego. I saw them often at my dad's restaurant. What a great time.
@johnperrigo64744 жыл бұрын
The Q's!!!!!!
@brando7266 Жыл бұрын
We're u at that classic game between the nets and conquistadors (4 ots),in 1974,,i still remember watching it in New york, I was almost 10 yrs old,,
@3243_ Жыл бұрын
Jabali later played for the Conquistadors, 1974-75.
@RayManzarekRocks3 ай бұрын
Oh, so YOU were the person in the front row . . .
@mikebowsr3515112 ай бұрын
Great memories watching these dudes..
@Wixom22002 жыл бұрын
I love this. In highschool in my sophomore year in 1975 we had a intramural basketball league. It became full QUICK and no one else could join. So about 3 guys came together and started another league, with less teams, in our highschools OTHER gym( on the top floor of our highschool, because it had 7 floors like a office bldg. We used the ABA colored ball LOL It was classic! Awe man is was too cool. WE HAD GUYS from the other intramural league TRYING TO JUMP TO "OUR" league. It was crazy. ABA vs NBA. I LOVED THE EARLY 70'S and the ABA.
@dmichael1008 жыл бұрын
Great download- exquisite quality on this 1973 footage. Just wish we had more complete games from the ABA during this time. I think the NBA has more ABA footage- wish they would make it available for sale - put it on I-Tunes for 3.99 a game or something.
@master-kq3nw7 жыл бұрын
great aba all star 1973 .erving, mcginis, jabbali,simpson,gilmore,calvin, excellent aba players, fantastic video.aba saved nba
@derricksutton2668 жыл бұрын
this was great I remember seeing it in tv.Big George Mcginnis.Julius Erving,Bill Cunningham,The Iceman loved it.
@OBESPRING19823 жыл бұрын
The Iceman wasn't yet an ABA All Star when this game was played. You won't find him in these highlights, as he was just beginning to blossom as a pro with the Virginia Squires.
@Amick443 жыл бұрын
@@OBESPRING1982 he became one soon though.
@OBESPRING19823 жыл бұрын
@@Amick44 True dat
@ericlyons44133 жыл бұрын
@@OBESPRING1982 and he was not really The Iceman yet. He was Iceberg Slim.
@OBESPRING19823 жыл бұрын
@@ericlyons4413 Said 'Fatty' Taylor
@swalterstennis4 жыл бұрын
My best friend and I met Zelmo Beaty at Lenny Wilkens Basketball Camp in 1977 and after giving us his autograph, I said, “Thanks. you made our day!” And Zelmo said, “You made my day, boys!”
@ericlyons44133 жыл бұрын
I tagged alongside Dr. Dunk... Darnell Hillman...one week at a Purdue camp when I was a kid. He told some cool stories.
@swalterstennis3 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Those meetings and photo ops were so important growing up. I still love meeting my childhood heroes.
@RayManzarekRocks3 жыл бұрын
Big Z made a great career move -- good NBA player in his prime, very good ABA player as a geezer.
@ARIZJOEАй бұрын
Zelmo is no longer with us, but had a reputation of being a very good person. He played with Lenny on the St. Louis Hawks. If you interacted with Lenny, that was one of the few guys in the HOF as both a player and a coach. Wilkens has always been a devout Catholic, and during a law school a classmate reached out to him at Mass - "Peace be with you, Coach Lenny."
@ARIZJOEАй бұрын
@@ericlyons4413 Darnell taught Dr. J had to blow out his Afro. Also, his dramatic dunking belied the fact Darnell had been in the military as a draftee.
@cflo13867 жыл бұрын
It's really cool that three former ABA players ended up with the Sixer's and won an NBA championship (Dr.J, B. Jones, and B. Cunningham).
@stevemcgillhurdles4 жыл бұрын
JL and Moses!
@RayManzarekRocks3 жыл бұрын
Cunningham began his career with the Sixers before he jumped leagues.
@randy9815 Жыл бұрын
Moses Malone also
@bige58384 жыл бұрын
Greatest basketball league ever
@lloydkline69463 жыл бұрын
❤ aba basketball 🏀
@rayluca128 жыл бұрын
I loved it! ABA forever
@derricksutton2668 жыл бұрын
Dan Issel and artis gilmore were on the Kentucky Col,team
@johnnyreed8537 Жыл бұрын
Very competitive action during this game as opposed to today's current All Star games where defense isn't played much
@wiedep4 жыл бұрын
Great post!
@yippee-ki-yay9925 Жыл бұрын
I wish NBA would play this type of defense in the All Star games.
@byronb35067 жыл бұрын
Fantastic upload! Great job
@elwin388 жыл бұрын
Big fan of the ABA! If they could've gotten a substantial T.V. contract, plus that Damn reserve clause held up a lot of NBA players who wanted to jump to the ABA, the Oscar Robertson case that held up the proposed merger, and stubborn NBA owners who sabotaged the ABA..if it weren't for those factors, either the ABA would've been a permanent second league or the NBA would've taken all the remaining ABA teams. Just like the NFL-AFL merger.
@RayManzarekRocks3 жыл бұрын
The current NBA is what the ABA was decades ago -- 3-point and slam-dunk contests. Except with rest management and a few more zeroes on the player contracts, of course. #NoThanks
@TheTones102 жыл бұрын
Love this footage!!!
@timdemskibasketball33704 жыл бұрын
Jabali!! Played with and against him at University of Miami in 1978 and 1979 after he retired. Obviously a great player even after sever back and knee injuries. But more importantly, a good guy that did a lot for the Miami community. He had an unjust rep earlier in hid pro career. But was treated with prejudice, so he should have been angry. A God in Miami after the ABA and so underrated in Ball an in Life. Who cares though? he was a good guy that helped a lot of kids.
@trapezemusic3 жыл бұрын
I'm pleased to learn that Jabali seems to have resolved his anger management issues after retiring from basketball and glad that he has helped kids since then. But, please don't say that he has an "unjust rep" early in his career. He was a very talented but justified head case disliked by almost the entire league. Great to learn from reading Terry Pluto's great book "Loose Balls" that Neil Johnson put him in his place with one punch.
@davanmani5563 жыл бұрын
Pluto has some bias issues. Good book but you couldn’t interview any Spurs player except John Lopez, writer? He left out the story of Charlie Scott getting brutalized by cops after a brawl in Indiana. Head case? He was a perennial All-star till next to his last year. The protest at the ‘74 All-Star game sealed his fate. I donn’t blame him, ABA owners ran their business like Harry Cohn did for Columbia pictures, very racist in practice with exceptions.
@trapezemusic3 жыл бұрын
@@davanmani556 Fist time I've heard that Terry Pluto has some "bias issues". Perhaps Pluto just has a problem with players who intentionally step on an opponent's head when that opponent is lying on the court, as Jabali did. He was a talented racist and head case.
@jasonlevin53783 жыл бұрын
@@trapezemusic just know that every African-American player in the league swore by Jabali as a proud man who didn't take the racism of the era lightly and there was a ton of it. Re-read Loose Balls and you'll see the bias VERY clearly....
@trapezemusic3 жыл бұрын
@@jasonlevin5378 Sure, and that's why stomping on another player 's head in excusable.
@ARIZJOEАй бұрын
Notice the play is a lot more intense than contemporary all Star games. The guys really tried back then. Now, the potential for injury and games featuring all the players are an everyday thing.
@OneHundredPoints3 күн бұрын
Current all stars are absolute garbage.
@watchout3614 жыл бұрын
BRING IT BACK!
@triplennnoflaf3 жыл бұрын
AWESOME VIDEO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WISH THERE WERE MORE , JUST LIKE IT !!!!!!!
@kincamell23 жыл бұрын
Much Gratitude.
@gloriawilliams1717 Жыл бұрын
Wow I was 2 yrs old then kinngkilo Kevin Williams let's go east
@kevinwitt9010 Жыл бұрын
I think that's a great idea!!
@DGarcia879 Жыл бұрын
hope you have highlights from the 1975 ABA All-Star Game played here in San Antonio
@thomasbridges7323 Жыл бұрын
Thats all right hope the aba players who are still alive get that money that was to be given too The as well as family members of the one's whos no longer with us all who had some thing to do with the aba they played hard
@sundromos94562 жыл бұрын
When it was still legal to play defense in an all-star game.
@cbl-ir5oi5 жыл бұрын
The voice of the late Andy Musser.
@MarklovesJoan6 жыл бұрын
Thanks SO much for this! I LOVE the original ABA and can't stand the brown ball league...
@BiffScooter110 ай бұрын
What is this preamble all about? Loved the ABA but wax lyrical much, Mr. Narrator?
@Amick447 жыл бұрын
Tough to understand how Ralph Simpson fell off so much in NBA. One of the top ABA guards at Denver. Size, speed, shooting/scoring, could pass, handle. Did it all in ABA.
@JStarStar006 жыл бұрын
He got injured, gained some weight, lost some speed and hops and ended up with some horrible teams. In the early 70s he was awesome.
@gheevinzxirvanka32306 жыл бұрын
At least he sired India.Arie.
@RayManzarekRocks3 жыл бұрын
Easy to explain -- Simpson lit up inferior competition in the ABA. Averaged 8.4 points per game on a .404 field goal percentage in the NBA.
@Kevinartero20236 жыл бұрын
Que era la ABA?
@gheevinzxirvanka32306 жыл бұрын
1967-1976.
@brianarbenz72064 жыл бұрын
I love the ABA.... But at 6:02 “fakery in serpentine motion.”… 6:21 “a blob of medicated goo.” Wording like that is why Robert Halsband (credited as the writer of this video) was never known as a great sportswriter.
@davanmani5563 жыл бұрын
Did NFL Films do this game?
@RayManzarekRocks3 ай бұрын
Hey, wait, I thought Whopper Paultz was "a blob of medicated goo"!
@brianarbenz72063 ай бұрын
@@RayManzarekRocks He fit that description.
@danmcmillan451Ай бұрын
Overall, by this time, ABA had better players in the NBA. More entertaining.
@RobC415 жыл бұрын
When you think of the ABA only one team is on top....Indiana Pacers!
@ericlyons44133 жыл бұрын
The Pacers were my team but you have to throw in Kentucky and Utah. I would throw the Nets in too except they were great for three years, and they lost to the 32-win Spirits in '75. Denver was good but never won a title and Dallas/San Antonio never did much in the postseason.
@RobC413 жыл бұрын
@@ericlyons4413 Ok, I will give a little love to Kentucky. Indiana - Kentucky battles in all sports is a fierce rivalry. The ABA was a major influence of modern NBA play.
@ericlyons44133 жыл бұрын
@@RobC41 I was Pacers all the way. But I always loved watching them play Kentucky and Utah. And there was nothing better than a George McGinnis-Julius Erving matchup.
@gregsumner4190 Жыл бұрын
@@ericlyons4413 o
@iamthegreatcornholio78363 ай бұрын
too bad the ABA existed. now we're stuck with the 3 pt. shot....the shot that cheapens basketball, that isn't even logical.
@ARIZJOEАй бұрын
It's logical if a league wants to avoid blow outs, and a game dominated by 7 footers. It's also a faster game amongst all the teams. Like the NFL, it's all about scoring for drama.
@iamthegreatcornholio783626 күн бұрын
@@ARIZJOE h6w about 9 pts f6r td's over 5* yds?
@RayManzarekRocks6 жыл бұрын
Class AAA basketball, second-rate markets, third-rate team owners. #GoodRiddance.
@JStarStar006 жыл бұрын
Nah. The playoff-level ABA teams (Kentucky, Denver, Indiana, the Nets) would have been competitive in the NBA. The bad ABA teams were horrible. But let's also remember 1973 was the year the 76ers went 9-73.
@genoware5755 жыл бұрын
RayManzarekRocks you don't know good basketball.
@therazband30074 жыл бұрын
At the beginning sure. But as the years went by, the gap shrunk to the point where the best ABA teams were the best pro teams. Those final NY Nets could beat any NBA team.
@trapezemusic3 жыл бұрын
Are you kidding?? Look how well the Pacers, Nuggets, and Spurs did the season after the merger. Look how many ABA players were in the All-Star game that season.
@RayManzarekRocks3 жыл бұрын
@@trapezemusic Forty-three years later, the Nuggets and Pacers still haven't won an NBA title. And it took the Spurs 22 years to win their first one.