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Los Angeles selected LaRoche with a pick in the additional rounds of the 1968 ABA Draft. [2] Standing 6-foot-4, 200 pounds, LaRoche signed with the Stars in June 1968, for $12,000 with a signing bonus of $3,000, after scoring eight points each in two summer intrasquad games at the L.A. Sports Arena.
Results; Record: 44–34 (.564) ... 1968 ABA Draft. Player School/Club Team ... Player Average per game Points Mel Daniels 24.0 Rebounds
The 1968–69 ABA season was the second season for the American Basketball Association. Two teams relocated: Minnesota Muskies became the Miami Floridians. The Pittsburgh Pipers moved to Minnesota and became the Minnesota Pipers. Two others relocated within their territory. The Anaheim Amigos became the Los Angeles Stars.
ABA Most Valuable Player Award (1969, 1971) All-ABA First Team (1968–1971) All-ABA Second Team : 2012: 50 [16] Julius Erving: F/G: Virginia Squires (1971–1973) New York Nets (1973–1976) 1974, 1976: ABA Most Valuable Player Award (1974–1976) ABA Playoffs Most Valuable Player Award (1974, All-ABA First Team (1973–1976) All-ABA Second ...
The 1967–68 ABA season was the first season for the American Basketball Association. The ABA was challenging the National Basketball Association. The ABA introduced a red, white and blue basketball. They used a 30-second shot clock as opposed to the NBA's 24 second shot clock, and also used the three-point shot. There were 11 teams playing in ...
[14] [18] The ABA and NBA had begun to discuss a possible merger, [19] and the ABA owners wanted to establish the viability and success of their league. [14] The Dunk Contest operated as a means of unique halftime entertainment that displayed the style and excitement that the ABA players brought to the game.
A four–time ABA All-Star and two–time ABA Champion, Netolicky was a well–rounded player who could rebound, defend, and shoot the ball equally well. Jim O'Brien of The Sporting News once claimed that Netolicky was the "smoothest shooting big man in the ABA." [4] [5] Besides the Pacers, Netolicky briefly played for the Dallas Chaparrals/San ...
New Jersey Americans draft picks are basketball players who were selected by the New Jersey Americans (now known as the Brooklyn Nets) from 1967 (back when they originally planned to play under the New Jersey Freighters name) until 1968 in the American Basketball Association draft prior to the franchise moving to New York to become the New York Nets starting from after the 1968 ABA draft ...