Its a shame i was never alive to experince the ABA but seeing the this special has made me obessed and i also got the book loose Balls by Terry Pluto which i highly recommend.
I wish HBO would put this out on DVD and include a bonus disc of the either the '76 All-Star game or Game 6 of the last ABA Championship series that same year since HBO broadcast both of those games....i have the UCLA Dynasty DVD they put out.....
Another of the Spirits of St. Louis' best players was Maurice Lucas, who as a rookie knocked out Artis Gilmore in one game and took a swing at Dr. J in another.
I just watched Showtimes Five hour doc on the AFL"Full color football" so I had to watch this,another good doc about a renegade league is showing on ESPN"s 30 in 30 series called"Small potato's who killed the USFL" or something like that,about the USFL.
I loved Mo Lucas he was the enforcer for the Blazers dishing out alot of punishment on the way to an NBA title in'77 & ten years later did the same thing with the sonics on their run to the west finals,that was one tough dude & the last real thug from that era when Pro B-ball was a contact sport. Is Red Auerbach still alive? he really was a bitter old fuck.
@jbare we all know that the ABA was the better league . Also the style now adays is the extact same style of play they had in the ABA. It was more than a Novelty it was a Stepping stone to the Future of Basketball. Dunk Contests and the Three Point line the Promotions and the Cheerleaders and music Preformers all these were first done in the ABA and the NBA got a swift kick in the nuts for that.
Let me elaborate. Look at 6:15: "Let 'em rot... cough..." Red would have lost no money had he allowed 6 ABA squads enter the NBA. Use the 3 pointer and flashy play of the ABA and the NBA wouldn't have struggled as it did financially in the 1970s. Red was a tyrant and narrow minded. Clearly the most influential excecutive in sports history but not always to a positive side. RIP
I mean god love 'em... he won all those championships... but what a complete a-hole. Hey, Red you won, the ABA went belly-up. But yet, he still piled on. The very definition of a bad winner.
Thank you so much for the post! Incredible material!The ABA was a basketball dream.
absolutely awesome video with pretty good quality image, ABA fan forever! thanx for posting
Great Documentary!
Thank you for posting this!
Thanks for finding this and posting! Boom Baby! Slick Leonard.
Its a shame i was never alive to experince the ABA but seeing the this special has made me obessed and i also got the book loose Balls by Terry Pluto which i highly recommend.
I love the docmentary movie. It's wonderful
I wish HBO would put this out on DVD and include a bonus disc of the either the '76 All-Star game or Game 6 of the last ABA Championship series that same year since HBO broadcast both of those games....i have the UCLA Dynasty DVD they put out.....
Nice to hear an early Bob Costas
Thanks so much !!!
Go Celts
Another of the Spirits of St. Louis' best players was Maurice Lucas, who as a rookie knocked out Artis Gilmore in one game and took a swing at Dr. J in another.
I just watched Showtimes Five hour doc on the AFL"Full color football" so I had to watch this,another good doc about a renegade league is showing on ESPN"s 30 in 30 series called"Small potato's who killed the USFL" or something like that,about the USFL.
I loved Mo Lucas he was the enforcer for the Blazers dishing out alot of punishment on the way to an NBA title in'77 & ten years later did the same thing with the sonics on their run to the west finals,that was one tough dude & the last real thug from that era when Pro B-ball was a contact sport.
Is Red Auerbach still alive? he really was a bitter old fuck.
@jbare we all know that the ABA was the better league . Also the style now adays is the extact same style of play they had in the ABA. It was more than a Novelty it was a Stepping stone to the Future of Basketball. Dunk Contests and the Three Point line the Promotions and the Cheerleaders and music Preformers all these were first done in the ABA and the NBA got a swift kick in the nuts for that.
@proken58 that was an excellent point. I hate the Celtics so I'm a bit biased (lol).
Let me elaborate. Look at 6:15: "Let 'em rot... cough..." Red would have lost no money had he allowed 6 ABA squads enter the NBA. Use the 3 pointer and flashy play of the ABA and the NBA wouldn't have struggled as it did financially in the 1970s. Red was a tyrant and narrow minded. Clearly the most influential excecutive in sports history but not always to a positive side. RIP
I mean god love 'em... he won all those championships... but what a complete a-hole. Hey, Red you won, the ABA went belly-up. But yet, he still piled on. The very definition of a bad winner.