High-flying, unstoppable future World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame inductee Julius Erving scores a personal-high 63 points, but the New York Nets lose to the San Diego Conquistadors, 176-166, in ...

Without question, the NBA wouldn’t be what it is had it not been for the American Basketball Association (ABA). A rebellion league that featured some of the most influential ballers, most notably ...

We look at how the Spurs, Nets, Nuggets, and Pacers adjusted to life in the NBA after being part of the 1976 NBA-ABA merger in the latest edition of Over and Back’s Basketball Mysteries of the 1970s.

Eugene “Goo” Kennedy knew something was amiss. There had been constant whispers that his life was about to change, that has career was about to be turned upside down. The year was 1976, and Kennedy, a ...

On October 20th in 1976, the Philadelphia 76ers acquired superstar Julius Erving from the New Jersey Nets for $3 million dollars. This came just months after the four ABA franchises - the Nets, ...

June 17 is a special anniversary for Brooklyn Nets fans. On this day, 48 years ago, the Nets, then the New York Nets playing at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, NY, merged with the NBA from the ...

There are two active players in the NBA who were born when the ABA played its final game on May 13, 1976, and neither Tim Duncan nor Andre Miller were old enough when it happened to remember it. Yet, ...

In the last American Basketball Association game ever played, Julius Erving scores 31 points to help the New York Nets overcome a 22-point third quarter deficit and beat the Denver Nuggets, 112-106, ...

Forty-eight years ago Tuesday, the American Basketball Association made its debut. The league only lasted for nine seasons before merging and effectively being dissolved by the NBA. In honor of the ...