fatlever wrote:its really amazing to read how disorganized the whole league was. they had no clue what they were doing. and stupid george mikan could have landed kareem for the ABA but he was a complete dumbass and never gave kareem the offer the league had prepared. he tried to lowball kareem and kareem took the better off with the NBA. how things would have been different if kareem landed in the ABA.
And amazing how close Dr J was to playing in atlanta with a young pete maravich. Dr J actually played in the preseason with atlanta before they made him go back to the ABA. speaking of Dr J, amazing how NOBODY knew who he was. ABA teams were drafting him based on reading stories. The first time the Virginia ABA team saw him play was the first day of training camp and they were like OMFG!!!!! and still after he was already in the ABA and averaging 30 and 18 people were still like "who the hell is this guy and why havent we heard of him until now?"
just crazy stuff.
What I love the most is the stories on the Spirits of St. Louis. I feel bad for the coaches that had to try coach those knuckleheads.
