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These are regular season standings for the current incarnation of the American Basketball Association (ABA). Note: The ABA does not keep official records for team standings. These records were all taken from www.USBasket.com.
Sun Yue, two-time ABA All-Star who played for the Beijing Aoshen Olympians from 2005 to 2008. The league resumed play with seven teams for the 2003–04 season. The returning Kansas City Knights were joined by the Fresno Heatwave, Jersey Squires, Las Vegas Rattlers, Juárez Gallos de Pelea, Long Beach Jam and Tijuana Dragons.
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.
Won ABA Finals 4–3 [14] George McGinnis [15] 1973–74: ABA — — Western 2nd 46 38 .548 5 Won Division semifinals 4–3 Lost Division finals 4–3 [16] 1974–75: ABA — — Western 3rd 45 39 .536 20 Won Division semifinals 4–2 Won Division finals 4–3 Lost ABA Finals 4–1 [17] George McGinnis [7] 1975–76: ABA — — — [d] 5th 39 ...
Seven coaches received votes from at least one of the 50 panelists; having claimed 34 of the available votes, Bobby "Slick" Leonard was the clear winner of the all-time best head coach award. Larry Brown , having received 16 votes for the players team, also received six votes in view of his coaching.
[1] [2] The league ceased operations in 1976 with the ABA–NBA merger and four teams from the ABA continued play in the National Basketball Association. [3] All ABA Finals were in best-of-seven format and were contested between the winners of the Eastern Division and the Western Division finals.
ABA regular season record (1967–1976) 374 370 .503 NBA regular season record (1976–present) 1,654 2,214 .428 All-time regular season record (1967–present) 2,028 2,584 .440 ABA postseason record (1967–1976) 37 32 .536 NBA postseason record (1976–present) 70 101 .409 All-time postseason record (1967–present) 107 133 .446
Following the BAA's merger with the National Basketball League (NBL), the BAA rebranded as the NBA. The 1949–50 NBA season marked the first season following the merger. The NBA has kept a record of its win-loss statistics since its inception. These records include wins and losses recorded during a team's playing time in the BAA.