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Moses Malone was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers from the Spirits of St. Louis.. On August 5, 1976, as a result of the ABA–NBA merger, the NBA hosted a dispersal draft to select players from the Kentucky Colonels and Spirits of St. Louis, the two American Basketball Association (ABA) franchises that were not included in the ABA–NBA merger.
The ABA–NBA merger terms included the St. Louis (and Kentucky) players being put into a special dispersal draft. Marvin Barnes went to the Detroit Pistons for $500,000, Moses Malone went to the Portland Trail Blazers for $300,000, Ron Boone went to the Kansas City Kings for $250,000, Randy Denton went to the New York Knicks for $50,000 and ...
The 1975–76 ABA season was the ninth and final season of the American Basketball Association.The shot clock was changed from 30 to 24 seconds to match the NBA. Dave DeBusschere was the league's new commissioner, its seventh and last.
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a men's professional basketball major league from 1967 to 1976. The ABA merged into the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976, resulting in four ABA teams joining the NBA and the introduction of the NBA 3-point shot in 1979.
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Murphy, a sports entrepreneur who co-founded the ABA, explained to author Terry Pluto in his must-read ABA history book, Loose Balls, "The three-point play was going to be a part of our league ...
Please note, this year's draft does not include six rounds of the July 13 dispersal draft involving two former ABA teams that existed or an expansion draft for the San Diego Conquistadors (who took Mike Barrett from the Virginia Squires as their first pick in that draft) that took place after the dispersal draft to replace one of those defunct ...
With the conclusion of the 1975–76 ABA season, negotiations to finalize the ABA-NBA merger began. On June 17, 1976, Colonels owner John Y. Brown Jr. agreed to fold the Colonels in exchange for $3 million from the ABA teams entering the NBA. The Colonels' players were put into a dispersal draft along with the players from the Spirits of St. Louis.