The American Basketball Association

Part I of Essay
When you ask teenagers or young adults about the ABA, most will inform you that they have never heard of it. had a short and wild life, yet it made great contributions to professional basketball. It increased the level of talent, changed the way the game was played, and ....

Part II of Essay
.... college graduate. The NBA had a rule which said that the draftee must have graduated from college. As a result, many college stars began to go straight into the ABA before graduating. One which did this was Moses Malone, he was the first player to come straight out of high school into professional sports. This was a revolutionary event in the history of professional sports. The ABA had a style of its own. Newsweek once described them, “Sex, drugs, platform shoes, sideburns, slam dunks, midnight franchise shifts, million dollar deferred ....