The Greatest Players of the ABA!

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

Комментарии • 297

  • @George-wn4rz
    @George-wn4rz 9 месяцев назад +42

    I was a ballboy for the ABA Memphis PROS, TAMS, & SOUNDS. I only missed one home game in 4 yrs. Can you imagine the wonderful memories I have. I also got to work 2 Harlem Globetrotter and one pre-season Boston Celtic game.

    • @jefferyroy2566
      @jefferyroy2566 4 месяца назад +2

      Do you have any Wendell Ladner stories? Did Johnny Neumann underachieve in the pros, or was merely an OK player, kinda like Rick Mount?

    • @George-wn4rz
      @George-wn4rz 4 месяца назад +2

      ​@@jefferyroy2566For Wendell Ladner I enjoyed watching him play because he gave 110% every game. He was always either running or sliding out of bounds going after loose balls. He was also a very nice guy and liked to cut up in the locker room with the other guys. I was very saddened when I heard about his death. For Johnny Neumann, most everybody thought he had the potential to be another Pistol Pete, but he quit practicing to become the really great player he had in him. He was a very nice guy. I also went to the same high school he did in Memphis. He was signed while at Ole Miss by my brother Charles Cavagnaro. Who at the time was the general manager of the Memphis Pros. For Rick Mount, he was a good player but I really wasn't very nice and acted like a prima donna

    • @manny4552
      @manny4552 3 месяца назад

      Johnny neuman played for the Buffalo braves ater the merger but he did not play very eell
      ​@@jefferyroy2566

    • @stever1791
      @stever1791 26 дней назад

      @@George-wn4rz I think Rick Mount got bitter when the Pacers played his point guard from Purdue Billy Keller over Rick . I know different positions - But Keller was going 36 to 40 minutes a game and rick Mount was getting 10 to 16 minutes. Also Rick and "Slick Lenard" ( Pacers coach rally didin't get along at all). But in College Rick was All World and So great

  • @GBst1007
    @GBst1007 4 месяца назад +30

    Dan Issel , Darnell Hillman , Louie Dampier , Zelmo Beatty and on and on and on and on ! Those were the days ! Yes they were !

    • @MrOlddog212
      @MrOlddog212 3 месяца назад +1

      Don't forget Charlie Scott

    • @ShadowHawk4219
      @ShadowHawk4219 Месяц назад +2

      Indeed. And guys like Roger Brown, Marvin " Bad News " Barnes, Mel Daniels,, and the late George McGuiness.

  • @MsTexas73
    @MsTexas73 9 месяцев назад +25

    Thanks for this. Love Dr J and the ABA. 🤗💜💫✨

  • @George-wn4rz
    @George-wn4rz 9 месяцев назад +8

    Congrats to the producer of this film. You really captured the "feel" of the ABA, THANKS!

  • @williamweiss6128
    @williamweiss6128 11 месяцев назад +21

    Yes, loved the ABA.

  • @josephsimmons6297
    @josephsimmons6297 4 месяца назад +10

    THIS WAS WHEN DR.J WAS THE FACE OF BASKETBALL, AND THE SPECTACULAR MOVES AND DUNKS THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. TO THE GREAT DR. JULIUS ERVING. THANKS FOR A WONDERFUL SHOW OF BASKETBALL TALENT AND SOME GREAT GAMES , THANK YOU.

  • @RoofDoctorsJoanne
    @RoofDoctorsJoanne 9 месяцев назад +14

    Doc, Skywalker & Ice then let's go with Moses & The Hawk

    • @ricshaffer4009
      @ricshaffer4009 6 месяцев назад +2

      Bobby Jones as 6th man... remember he had the highest FG % in ABA

  • @RubenCao
    @RubenCao 5 месяцев назад +11

    Young man I congratulate you, well done. I was there watching Miami Floridians games in South Beach. There's never been anything like the ABA, it was fun, free, and flowing. The merger was a downer, and to this day the NBA continues to take itself much too seriously. Keep up the good work.

  • @williamcurtin5692
    @williamcurtin5692 6 месяцев назад +11

    A bunch of us used to drive 90 miles to Pittsburgh to watch the Hawk. Just incredible.

  • @jingqi9106
    @jingqi9106 Год назад +37

    Mel Daniels wasn't the shot blocker that Bill Russell was but Daniels was a better shooter. As far as other ABA greats go, there was Larry Kenon who was an outstanding NBA player after the merger, Nets guard Brian Taylor, Nets and Spurs center Billy Paultz, Spurs guard James Silas, Stars and Squires Willie Wise, Pacers, Sounds, and Stars guard Roger Brown, Pacers forward George McGinnis, and Nuggets and Colonels center Dan Issel. Dan Issel, Roger Brown, and George McGinnis in my opinion are the best of the rest of this list but of course there are other outstanding ABA players not mentioned by me. Mt favorite player you didn't mention is probably Rger Brown who was. NY city playground legend as well as a great pro player. Of course, Issel and McGinnis had excellent NBA careers as well.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  Год назад +4

      Good names, Issel was huge for the ABA and proved he belonged right away. Thanks for contributing to this under-appreciated time period!

    • @kevinswihart6867
      @kevinswihart6867 Год назад +9

      I would add Charlie Scott to the list. He was a very good player. Swen Nater was tough. Donnie Freeman, James Jones, Ron Boone, Joe Caldwell, and Freddie Lewis were instrumental also !

    • @jingqi9106
      @jingqi9106 Год назад +2

      @@kevinswihart6867 Yeah, there were a number of ABA players that were good players. The players you mention were fine players.

    • @bricefleckenstein9666
      @bricefleckenstein9666 9 месяцев назад +6

      In the final season of the ABA, Don Buse led the league in both assists AND steals.
      Care to guess who lead the NBA in the first season AFTER the merger?

    • @jefferyroy2566
      @jefferyroy2566 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@bricefleckenstein9666It was Don Buse, right? Dude could deal dimes then "D" up the other guards till they were dead! He was the secret sauce coming over from the ABA to that tired old league, and the answer to that unusual bit of trivia.

  • @donjaxutube
    @donjaxutube 3 месяца назад +3

    I attended high school with "The Hawk." His exploits in those days are legendary. More to the point, he was not involved directly in the scandal because he-not knowing the actors in the scheme-merely introduced players to the gamblers. He was thoughtful, honest, and one to serve as an exemplary role model for youth. He was cheated out of his prime years in what proved to be a stellar career. "Foul," a book about his battle with the NBA is a must-read for ardent sports fans and those interested in social commentary of the 1960s.

    • @mikeythompson7777
      @mikeythompson7777 3 месяца назад

      True story: As a kid, I watched Hawk dunk over our Pacers Mel Daniels _from the top of the key_ in an Indiana Black Expo summer game. We loved Mel, an all-time Pacer great, but Hawk nearly blew the house down when he did that...sounded like a cannon went off when he hit that rim. Happened more than 50 years ago, remains nastiest dunk I've ever seen to this day. There is no second place lol
      "Foul" remains an all-time classic sports biography

  • @johnwx25
    @johnwx25 6 месяцев назад +13

    Larry Kenon, Freddy Lewis, John Williamson. Brian Taylor, Moses Malone, Dan Issel, Maurice Lucas, George McGinnis, Marvvin Barns, and more. ABA played the NBA twice in All Star games. ABA led all time pre season match ups too. Vegas offered $1,000,000 winner take all for 74 Nets vs Celtics in a super series. ABA was a great league. 1st year of merger the Nuggets went to western conference finals vs Trailblazers and lost in 6. Trailblazers had 2 ABA greats that helped. Dave Twardic and Maurice Lucas. ABA players dominated the all star line ups for both east and west. Check out remembering the ABA

    • @alanlatimer1024
      @alanlatimer1024 3 месяца назад +4

      Mel Daniels was a legitimate bad ass center

    • @MrScroogedmcduck
      @MrScroogedmcduck 3 месяца назад +2

      I got to see the spurs in PHX. Ice man special k..Walter Davis...Alvan adames

    • @JamesMiller-e2f
      @JamesMiller-e2f 24 дня назад +1

      Spirits of St. Louis, Bad News Barnes.

    • @johnwx25
      @johnwx25 24 дня назад

      @JamesMiller-e2f great talent and tough.

  • @Rockhound6165
    @Rockhound6165 10 месяцев назад +6

    I remember the ABA well especially Dr. J. He's my all time favorite basketball player which means I was tickled pink when my Sixers ended up getting him in 1976. As for the league itself, I'm currently listening to an audio book Loose Balls about the ABA. I'm a fan of rebel leagues being a big fan of the ABA, WHA, and original USFL. The WFL wasn't around long enough to get attached to it. Oh, you mentioned the Nuggets using Bobby Jones to try to neutralize Doc, Dr. J and Bobby Jones would become very close friends and ended up winning a NBA title together for the Sixers in 1983.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  10 месяцев назад

      Thanks for this, paints a better picture of the era and what it was like to grow up around the game.

  • @davidcorsair2405
    @davidcorsair2405 Год назад +36

    You forgot Roger Brown and George McGinnis

  • @calliopivogiatzis2235
    @calliopivogiatzis2235 Год назад +20

    RIP George McGinnis, former Indiana Pacer!❤

  • @jimcarter4425
    @jimcarter4425 Год назад +37

    The ABA did NOT invent the 3 point shot. That innovation goes to the ABL. It was also used in the EPBL and NABL prior to adoption in the ABA. The ABA did introduce the red, white and blue ball.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  Год назад +5

      Thank you for that info, I appreciate that

    • @trapezemusic
      @trapezemusic Год назад +9

      True, but the ABA popularized the 3-point play.

    • @bishopofsahs
      @bishopofsahs Год назад

      Nobody cares about what you have to say. We only care about the ABA. We were the ones who watch those knickers play.

    • @stevenmichienzi9833
      @stevenmichienzi9833 Год назад +8

      @@trapezemusic right, but it's not their innovation like the slam dunk contest,
      the three-point shot was tested sporadically in college games, and then it was Abe Saperstein's idea to introduce the 3-point shot into a professional league

    • @Rockhound6165
      @Rockhound6165 9 месяцев назад +2

      George Mikan came up with the red, white, and blue ball because he couldn't see the regular orange ball very well.

  • @iMacxXuserXx485
    @iMacxXuserXx485 Год назад +8

    Great video! I love hearing about NBA history. Rick Barry was so good it's insane. I'd say he deserves to be top 30 to 20 all time.

  • @jasend8727
    @jasend8727 11 месяцев назад +16

    Roger Brown is considered the greatest ABA player by a lot of his own piers. There is a documentary about Roger, from 2014 I believe. In that documentary, they show a still photo of the Pacer legends, and Darnell Hillman is holding an autographed game used ball, that belonged to my step-dad. My mom sold the ball recently, but I still have photo mentioned above. He was a huge ABA Pacer fan, and Darnell ended up working for him at a car dealership.

    • @Rockhound6165
      @Rockhound6165 9 месяцев назад

      Don't you mean peers. Pier is something you fish off of.

    • @bricefleckenstein9666
      @bricefleckenstein9666 9 месяцев назад +1

      With all due respect to Roger, he had ZERO votes for MVP on the All ABA alltime team - which DID include some of his "peers".
      Dr. J dominated that vote, with Mel Daniels the ONLY other person to get more than one vote.

    • @antoniotutt4894
      @antoniotutt4894 9 месяцев назад +1

      No way be for real!

    • @bricefleckenstein9666
      @bricefleckenstein9666 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@antoniotutt4894 To be fair, Roger WAS one of the 7 with unanimous votes to the alltime ABA team.
      Along with Dr. J, Artis Gillmore, Dan Issel, Louis Dampier, George Gervin, and Mel Daniels.
      So pretty elite company there.
      George McGinnes was the highest non-unanimous choice, at 44 of 50 possible votes.

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 5 месяцев назад

      @@bricefleckenstein9666 It must have been a popularity contest if Barry didn't get more votes than that.

  • @emmanuelwilliams6004
    @emmanuelwilliams6004 Год назад +4

    Very good & informative video I thoroughly enjoyed it I was born in the 1960s & grew up in the 70s remember & enjoy the history thank you .

  • @acornsucks2111
    @acornsucks2111 3 месяца назад +3

    Louie Dampier's three point percentage was in the high thirties and averaging about 6 assists per game.

  • @ellisblom339
    @ellisblom339 6 месяцев назад +3

    Spencer Haywood and Connie Hawkubs were great. I lived through this time so I knew all these players

  • @swordman6827
    @swordman6827 3 месяца назад +1

    Never be forgotten. Greatest league ever. Nothing about the spirit s of St. Louis. They were a big part of ABA history. Amazing story

  • @stewartberger7734
    @stewartberger7734 11 месяцев назад +3

    This is a fantastic video. Thanks for posting this......I was a huge fan of Billy Keller and John Roche

  • @bricefleckenstein9666
    @bricefleckenstein9666 9 месяцев назад +2

    1:10
    The NBA hated to admit that after the first 2-3 years, the ABA had reached parity with them - any by 4-5 years BEFORE the merger was the superior league overall.

    • @stevenasser368
      @stevenasser368 29 дней назад

      That is true! The ABA especially in the last 3 years of it's existence was crushing the NBA in exhibition games and won the overall series ! The ABA had truly great players

    • @bricefleckenstein9666
      @bricefleckenstein9666 29 дней назад

      @@stevenasser368 Also, the ABA champion won it's series with the NBA champion even before THAT - I don't think the ABA lost even ONE of those particular series.
      Some of the ABA-NBA exhibition games in each series were played under ABA rules, some under NBA rules (the only significant difference being the 3 point line).

  • @duaneperkins8329
    @duaneperkins8329 11 месяцев назад +6

    Great video, but Dan Issel has to be on the list of greatest players of the ABA. He was truly one of the best scorers and rebounders in the league. He even finished his career in fourth place all time in scoring (both ABA & NBA) behind only Kareem, Wilt and Dr. J. I'm just glad you started out with David Thompson and had Artist Gilmore on your list. Artist was my favorite player growing up (with David and Dan right behind him). I grew up in Denver and remember the great team we had. I was also a huge Kentucky fan, having been born there (but moved to Denver when I was a baby). Really though Denver would win that last championship. After all, in the final ABA all-star game it was the all-stars vs Denver Nuggets...and the Nuggets won.

    • @Rockhound6165
      @Rockhound6165 9 месяцев назад

      Artis not Artist.

    • @michaelwolf6424
      @michaelwolf6424 4 месяца назад

      Dan Issel was one of the first players I thought of when I started watching this video. I don't see how he omitted Issel either.

  • @jonvandenberg5065
    @jonvandenberg5065 Год назад +8

    Maurice Lucas.

  • @brianarbenz1329
    @brianarbenz1329 2 месяца назад

    Excellent look at the ABA! I grew up watching the Kentucky Colonels and the rest of the ABA. Louie Dampier was indeed the heart of the ABA, playing from day 1 to the final game, which was in the 1976 playoffs against the Denver Nuggets. When Louie would shoot that 3-pointer, the crowd would go into such a state of anticipation, watching that pinwheel-looking ball spin for 25 feet! It was like baseball fans following a long ball out to the fence with their eyes. And when he'd hit it, it was just like a home run.
    Since Louie Dampier proved how the 3-pointer could make the game fan-friendly and exciting, it is he who is responsible for the NBA and the college game adopting the 3. That makes him one of the most influential players ever.

  • @RichardSchaefer-zx9ig
    @RichardSchaefer-zx9ig 4 месяца назад +1

    Dan Issel, w Kentucky Colonels + Denver was an icon of ABA. I remember the Jack Lambert- like photo of him w/o his top denture. As a Ct. native I was also haply that U Conn legends Wes Balisouklia(?) a3 pt. specialist + Toby Kimball got ABA contracts. Also "Super" John Williamson grom New Haven was essential player in Nets final Championship. Enjoyed the program.
    Good memories.

  • @myronersteniuk5805
    @myronersteniuk5805 6 месяцев назад +3

    A league of unbelievably great players ! They need much more recognition for their accomplishments than they get. Many of them merged thankfully with the NBA.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  6 месяцев назад +2

      Let’s see if the NBA follows suit with the MLB and includes the statistics from the ABA!

  • @donaldord4046
    @donaldord4046 4 месяца назад +3

    After Barry got hurt, it was Warren Jabali , the 68-69 Rookie of the Year, that led the Oakland Oaks to to the title in the ABA's second season. Averaged 33 points per game in the finals vs. the Pacers. He was the MVP of the '73 All-Star Game. A ferocious dunker though he was only 6'2". Barry thought he was one of the best guards he ever played with or against.

    • @acornsucks2111
      @acornsucks2111 3 месяца назад

      never heard of him.

    • @jimhresko9102
      @jimhresko9102 3 месяца назад

      Jabali was very talented but also a dirty player. He stomped on Jim Jarvis face and ended his career.

  • @9Ballr
    @9Ballr 6 месяцев назад +8

    I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky, and I was nine years old in 1975 when the Kentucky Colonels won the ABA Championship. Louie Dampier is my favorite basketball player of all time!

    • @FurtherReview
      @FurtherReview 3 месяца назад +1

      The Kentucky Colonels and the Indiana Pacers had perhaps the best rivalry in the ABA, extending into the playoffs. The Pacers announcer called it "the Battle of I-65."

  • @GBeret83
    @GBeret83 Год назад +4

    My ABA best starting 5 would be: To begin with I'd have to say, any list that doesn't have him on it I couldn't even consider a serious list, the greatest ABA player of all-time, Julius 'Dr.J.' Erving, George McGuinness(who we just very recently sadly lost), David Thompson, Dan Issel, & The 'Iceman' George Gervin. My 6th man depending on what position I needed a 6th man in the most would be (guard)-Louis Dampier, the league's all-time leading scorer. (Forward)-Darnell Hillman, and (Center)-Artis Gilmore.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  Год назад +1

      can't really argue with that lineup!

    • @GBeret83
      @GBeret83 Год назад

      @@SuperbSportMedia, I'd feel comfortable taking my 5 against anyone else's ABA 5.

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 5 месяцев назад

      @@SuperbSportMedia I can. For a start... it includes McGinnis but not Barry?????

  • @richdouglas2311
    @richdouglas2311 10 месяцев назад +16

    Julius was the greatest ABA player ever. It's not even close. Loved Roger Brown, David Thompson, Billy Cunningham, Rick Barry, Larry Kenon, Dan Issel, and (most of all) Connie Hawkins. But Julius WAS the league.
    Spencer Haywood was the most important player (besides Doc). Because of him, the NBA started signing underclassmen.
    Hawkins was a very old 27 when he finally beat the NBA in court and get into the league.
    The ABA didn't have a lot of big men. The one truly big man who was a pure center (unlike Issel and Cunningham) was Artis Gilmore. Gilmore was the strongest man in the league (and second-strongest man ever to play in the NBA.
    Hold on, Barry didn't sit because of "a clause in his contract." He sat because of the dreaded Reserve Clause, which was in EVERY player's contract, not just Barry's. It's the same thing that kept Wilt from playing for San Diego.
    Also, the implication that "he shot them like this (Barry's free throws) makes it sound like it was a handicap. Barry was a great free throw shooter BECAUSE he mastered the underhand style.
    The CBA was NOT "semi-pro." It was a professional league, originally known as the Eastern League.
    Using Bill Russell as an archetype for Mel Daniels seems fair.
    Yes, Doc was the most exciting player ever. EVER. But what was really great about Julius was how much impact he'd have on a game without making spectacular plays. He'd pop a mid-range jumper off the glass late in the game and you'd suddenly realize he had 30-something--without you even noticing.
    Let's not get carried away with the totality of Gilmore's contract. Like many of the contracts given those days, it was based on the Dolgoff Plan--where a lot of the money was deferred. The up-front money was nowhere close to what was announced, but players (for the most part) saw that money eventually. But the time-value of money means those payments were worth a lot less.
    Go read "Loose Balls" by Terry Pluto for an oral history of the ABA. The best book ever written about the league.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for this reply, you’ve taught me a couple of things I didn’t know!

    • @JuanAlmonte-rf7xk
      @JuanAlmonte-rf7xk 4 месяца назад +1

      Great job dude,how about the ultra talented but crazy Marvin Barnes

    • @richdouglas2311
      @richdouglas2311 4 месяца назад +1

      @@JuanAlmonte-rf7xk Marvin "Bad News" Barns was an amazing talent, but he was coddled too much and prone to excesses--including drug abuse--since his days at Providence.
      Once, when playing for the Spirit of Saint Louis, the team was taking a 1-hour flight that crossed a time zone. Thus, it would land "earlier" than it took off. Marvin refused to board the aircraft. "I ain't getting into no time machine, man." He rented a car instead and drove to the next city.
      Barnes struggled in the NBA and was eventually cut from the Clippers after a middling NBA career. He kicked around San Diego, specializing in getting high and committing thefts to pay for it. He even did some jail time. Eventually, he straightened out, but then relapsed and died young. Barnes just might be the biggest self-inflicted waste of talent ever.

    • @JuanAlmonte-rf7xk
      @JuanAlmonte-rf7xk 4 месяца назад

      @@richdouglas2311 :Yes the great Bob Costas tells that story😂😂

    • @richdouglas2311
      @richdouglas2311 4 месяца назад +1

      @@JuanAlmonte-rf7xk Bob was the team's announcer back then, his first professional job. To read more anecdotes like that from the ABA, I highly recommend "Loose Balls" by Terry Pluto. It is a first-person account of many aspects of the ABA, told by the people who lived it.

  • @JDougyJ
    @JDougyJ 5 месяцев назад +3

    I love basketball history. This is well done. Thank you.

  • @teeball120
    @teeball120 Год назад +3

    Very entertaining video. You did a great job.

  • @johnmule9419
    @johnmule9419 11 месяцев назад +5

    Saw many of these games as a kid and loved every minute of the ABA games. Best player I ever saw in the ABA was Connie Hawkins (Pittsburgh Pipers). Great book on Connie 'Foul! The Connie Hawkins Story' by David Wolf - highly recommended...

  • @JerryFerko
    @JerryFerko 6 месяцев назад +2

    Nice Job RED .................... Cool VIDEOS

  • @tommyjohnson2737
    @tommyjohnson2737 11 месяцев назад +14

    What about Moses Malone!

  • @awesomenooob
    @awesomenooob Год назад +2

    This channel fr needs at least 100k subs for such good content. Keep it up 💪

  • @junestevens5123
    @junestevens5123 Год назад +8

    Yes more on ABA others not on list Beaty, Wise and Issel

  • @mauriceortiz1557
    @mauriceortiz1557 3 месяца назад

    Awesome footage !_! Great narration ^_^

  • @garyspangler5546
    @garyspangler5546 4 месяца назад +2

    Pacers, thanks for mentioning they won the most ABA championships. Roger Brown, you should have mentioned also. In High school he out scored Connie Hawkins. Down Town Roger Brown! Freddie Lewis, Billy Keller, Bob Netelicky,

    • @wendellwoods1742
      @wendellwoods1742 3 месяца назад

      How could he leave off Roger Brown? Inexcusable.

  • @johnkedzior1454
    @johnkedzior1454 4 месяца назад +2

    Was a Md Terps fan and use to hate when Thompson was not allowed to dunk the ally oop pass , NC State had a great team

  • @Defender78
    @Defender78 Год назад +9

    Dan Issel? this forward wasn't flashy, but think of him as similar to Rick Barry ABA/John Havlicek ABA champion (1975)
    NBA All-Star (1977)
    6× ABA All-Star (1971-1976)
    ABA All-Star Game MVP (1972)
    All-ABA First Team (1972)
    4× All-ABA Second Team (1971, 1973, 1974, 1976)
    ABA Rookie of the Year (1971)
    ABA scoring champion (1971)
    J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award (1985)
    ABA All-Time Team
    No. 44 retired by Denver Nuggets
    1 x NBA All-Star 76-77 (not sure why since he avg'd 20 ppg for years during his seven yrs in the NBA )
    15K points ABA and 25 ppg, 12K points NBA and 21 ppg, 27,482 total points, averaged 78 games per season
    but Dan is never talked about WFT!

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  Год назад +3

      Absolutely, Issel was a huge name and proved he was legit when he did more of the same thing in the NBA. If the NBA counted his ABA stats it wouldn’t be any argument that he was one of the best of all time

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 5 месяцев назад

      Issel was not remotely like, or as good as, Barry. But, yes, he is the ABA player who most deserved to be on this list but wasn't. Well...maybe Roger Brown, but I'd go with Issel.

  • @kendallfountain3729
    @kendallfountain3729 Год назад +13

    Man Dr.J is still the man. And then M. J. HE HAD THE FRO. Man look at his hair and hands.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  Год назад +1

      He was more than Iconic, he's on the Mt. Rushmore of Superstar basketball players. He's the reason the merger HAD to happen!

    • @danielbrancheau7464
      @danielbrancheau7464 Год назад +1

      Dr. Dunk Darnell Hillman has the Fro. Just ask Dr. J!

    • @kevinswihart6867
      @kevinswihart6867 Год назад +1

      Darnell Hillman had jumped over 7 feet high in track at San Jose. It was known that he could touch the top of the backboard, and his alfro could sometimes touch the rim when playing !

    • @acornsucks2111
      @acornsucks2111 3 месяца назад

      mike's hairline was going backwards and he shaved it all. It started the trend.

  • @geraldvanhees779
    @geraldvanhees779 9 месяцев назад +4

    George mgginnis was a big name in the aba. Also Dan issell.

  • @yanncarduner4516
    @yanncarduner4516 4 месяца назад

    Excellent and deep video thanks

  • @charleselder212
    @charleselder212 4 месяца назад +2

    Rick Berry, by far, the most underrated player in professional sports history.

    • @wendellwoods1742
      @wendellwoods1742 3 месяца назад

      Barry and Elgin Baylor and Oscar Robertson are the three most underrated and underrespected.

  • @jamesedwards8575
    @jamesedwards8575 3 месяца назад +1

    Who remembers marvin bad news barnes

  • @reedelwyn532
    @reedelwyn532 Год назад +5

    Roger Brown needs to be included in your list. Nice video though.

  • @joshwallman229
    @joshwallman229 6 месяцев назад +1

    Good video but you left out John 'Stepladder' Willamson, Larry Kenon (was only overshadowed by Erving), and Moses Malone (1st HS player drafted directly into the ABA). I played with that basketball as a kid because of that league style. I did not know that Mel Daniels had mentored Bird at ISU so thanks for that.

    • @anthonymartin8769
      @anthonymartin8769 13 дней назад

      No wonder Larry Bird played with a chip on his shoulder, because that is how Mel Daniels played. And they both were fantastic.

  • @WVBUCK1
    @WVBUCK1 6 месяцев назад +2

    The book Loose Balls is a must for all who are interested in the ABA!

  • @M3RRIH3W13
    @M3RRIH3W13 8 месяцев назад +3

    Super John Williamson (RIP) was a lot better than his stat sheet. When he was hot, he was nuclear! I lived in the NY area and could watch the ABA Nets. That was a great team. I tell youngsters that they only have seen half of Dr. J in Philly. Brian Taylor, Super John, Larry Kenon, and Dr. J. were a tough team.

  • @jonnypin1
    @jonnypin1 4 месяца назад +2

    John Brisker

  • @paulrodberg
    @paulrodberg 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for the research. Taught me a lot!

  • @robertlittlejohn7394
    @robertlittlejohn7394 4 месяца назад

    Dan Issel (#44) played for the Kentucky Colonels at the same time as Louis Dampier and Artis Gilmore. He was with the Denver Nuggets when the NBA and ABA merged.
    Dan has always been a fan favorite because he came from my hometown of Batavia, IL where I saw just how good he was in high school.
    Dan would go on to set records for the Kentucky Wildcats. UK basketball fans still tell me that Issel's stats still hold the record. All I had to do was mention the name of Dan Issel and they'd take the conversation from there!
    Issel's name was synonymous with the legendary Adolph Rupp, who built upon what Donovan Van Der Snick taught Dan at Batavia High School.

  • @Eric-qv2rz
    @Eric-qv2rz 4 месяца назад +1

    They absorbed the ABA because of one player . Doctor J❤❤❤

  • @RayManzarekRocks
    @RayManzarekRocks 3 месяца назад +1

    The ABA and NBA did not merge. Rather, the NBA expanded -- it agreed to add four of seven ABA teams. (The ABA started its final season with nine teams, but two folded.) The other three were left to die. Consider that the ABA finished with fewer teams than it started with, and it was a failure. Other than a lot of Afros and a red, white and blue ball, the ABA didn't have a pot to piss in when all was said and done. (Fun Fact: 48 years later, the Pacers and Nets still haven't won an NBA championship. And it took the Nuggets 47 years to finally get one.)

  • @RayManzarekRocks
    @RayManzarekRocks 6 месяцев назад +5

    If not for Rick Barry, there would be no ABA to speak of. It would have folded after two or three seasons. By the start of its second season (1968), he and Wilt were arguably the two best players in the world. He gave the ABA the kind of legitimacy that it had never had to that point and salaries spiked as a result. A lot of basketball players owe him. Big time.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  6 месяцев назад

      Yep between him and Dr J there’s no telling how the ABA would’ve fared

    • @RayManzarekRocks
      @RayManzarekRocks 5 месяцев назад

      @@SuperbSportMedia The ABA was on its last legs even with Doc when it merged with the NBA. Only three of its teams survived -- Nets, Nuggets and Spurs.

    • @Phillip-x4y
      @Phillip-x4y 4 месяца назад

      I think you are wrong there sir Julius Dr.J Erving was the ABA he was the Jordan before Jordan had his signature show made a movie first to do commercials and everyone was Dr.J fans everyone wanted to see doc two times ABA Champ 3 time mvp unstoppable dunked on everyone ABA best player

    • @RayManzarekRocks
      @RayManzarekRocks 4 месяца назад

      @@Phillip-x4y Erving did not save the ABA. In fact, the ABA was on its death bed even with Doc in his athletic prime -- only three teams made the jump to the NBA. Because the ABA didn't have a network TV deal, he was a well-kept secret except in the few cities that had teams. I lived in Chicago, the No. 2 market in the country, and the 1976 Finals were the first and last ABA games ever televised there.

    • @brando7266
      @brando7266 4 месяца назад

      ​@@RayManzarekRocksu forgot the pacers

  • @iamrichrocker
    @iamrichrocker 27 дней назад

    Kenny Walker, also had the monikor skywalker, but with a twist...due to his last name...Kenny Sky Walker..but DT was a true skywalker..his vertical was off the charts..rumor was he could brab a quarter from the top of the backboard...thx for the great content and GL with channel..

  • @dmunz7015
    @dmunz7015 4 месяца назад

    I was there living in an ABA city and loved every minute.

  • @2SaucyOfficial
    @2SaucyOfficial 10 месяцев назад +2

    Mel Daniels and the Pacers were basically the ABA version of Bill Russell and the 1960s Celtics

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  10 месяцев назад

      Balanced scoring behind a big man who get boards and play D, yessir thats a good comparison

  • @donbrown9215
    @donbrown9215 3 месяца назад +1

    I saw all these players in the aba I lived about 20 minutes away from Nassau coliseum home of the nets and Islanders. Connie Hawkins was the best player I ever saw. Spencer heywood was a great player n a great guy he lives in my adopted hometown of Las Vegas n I see him around town sometimes also he has 4 joints in his fingers instead of 3

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  3 месяца назад

      Wow great stories. I can’t deny that I’m a little jelly! Knowing legends before they’re gone is special

  • @melvinpruitt3907
    @melvinpruitt3907 Год назад +1

    Hey how about a video of high flyer David Thompson and Monte Towe?

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  11 месяцев назад +1

      I would love to, if there is enough footage out there to make a video

  • @MartyHochwart
    @MartyHochwart 4 месяца назад +1

    You should of put in Willie wise,Ron Boone,and Zelmo beauty

  • @gregb6469
    @gregb6469 7 дней назад

    My of my greatest sports regrets is that the Colonels did not move to the NBA. The only pro basketball game I have ever attended was at Freedom Hall in the mid-70s when the Nets came in to play the Colonels. Kentucky won, and Gilmore scored 28 points. Dr J had 23 points.

  • @RayManzarekRocks
    @RayManzarekRocks 4 месяца назад +1

    The NBA has morphed into the streetball that the ABA popularized decades ago, which is why it's so unpopular these days. If the NBA had a red, white and blue ball, one wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Lots of dunks and 3-pointers but very little else.

  • @centrist1008
    @centrist1008 4 месяца назад

    Never forgotten. Legend’s

  • @pablosonic892
    @pablosonic892 8 месяцев назад +1

    I knew Dr. J not from basketball, although i definitely knew he was a pro hooper, this being because I wouldn't get into sports till the early 80s, but J transcended the sport and was just in the zeighest. For me, it was his image and cartoon likeness plastered in every ad section from mid to late 70s Marvel comics along with Rick Berry (and Evel Knievel). In the late 80s, we used to explain to kids even then who J and Berry were and like by saying they were the Jordan and Bird of their day.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  8 месяцев назад

      Can’t say I’m not a little jealous that you got to live thru the period as it happened

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 5 месяцев назад

      Who is this "Berry" person?

  • @Eric-qv2rz
    @Eric-qv2rz 4 месяца назад +1

    Moving Marvin Barnes Dr J said he was unguardable

  • @Phillip-x4y
    @Phillip-x4y 4 месяца назад

    Rick Barry's grandma shot at the free throw was iconic and hardly missed

    • @michaelwolf6424
      @michaelwolf6424 4 месяца назад

      On the contrare, Barry's underhand free throw was/is technically more accurate than its overhand cousin. Shot on a true line. My HS coach taught us this style. His philosophy was that shooting free throws like this was more adaptable late in the game when arms tired. It didn't win any favors but we had to do it that way. Rick Barry's sons shot that way too.

  • @JimmyAllen82
    @JimmyAllen82 3 месяца назад

    I remember a great guard for The Kentucky Colonels with Artis Gilmore named Bird Avery.

  • @DemetriusJohnson-y5n
    @DemetriusJohnson-y5n 4 месяца назад +1

    The ABA was the most exciting league at the time, with players like Dr.J and David Thompson.

  • @thedeceiver5545
    @thedeceiver5545 4 месяца назад +1

    hey man, Charlie Scott!!

  • @delbertprince5302
    @delbertprince5302 3 месяца назад

    The ABA was an interesting league eventhough I was a baby when the league existed in the 1970s.....

  • @Paul-cj1wb
    @Paul-cj1wb 9 месяцев назад +3

    You left out ABA greats and future NBA hall of famers Moses Malone, Dan Issel and, although you briefly mentioned him as defending Dr. J, Bobby Jones.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  9 месяцев назад +1

      Check out our 2nd video on the ABA, more stars of the ABA, it covers some of your names

  • @stever1791
    @stever1791 26 дней назад +1

    Billy Cunningham was a Great ABA Player - I know he only played a few years at most. but he was MVP ( I think )

  • @williamtyler727
    @williamtyler727 3 месяца назад

    Connie Hawkins was the baddest cat back then. Doc patterned palming the ball and laying it up with one hand like Hawkins. They tried to call Doc “Baby Hawk” but Connie liked the way Julius moved and “operated”, like a doctor. Thus Julius Ervin became DoctorJ; he was famous on the Polo Grounds for sure!!!!!!!!

  • @robertjackson1060
    @robertjackson1060 3 месяца назад +1

    I am 65 years old I watch the Aba in it's prime and there was no one close to the Dr. His highwire act is undisputed he was the A.b.a.

  • @keavo5368
    @keavo5368 10 месяцев назад +2

    David thompson.

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 5 месяцев назад

      Did you doze through the segment on him? Watch the vid again.

    • @keavo5368
      @keavo5368 4 месяца назад

      Mr assumption.

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 4 месяца назад

      @@keavo5368 Mr. Oblivious.

    • @keavo5368
      @keavo5368 4 месяца назад

      . Oblivion

  • @mikeythompson7777
    @mikeythompson7777 3 месяца назад

    Us old-time Pacer fans remind you that Roger Brown and George McGinnis need to be added to this list. Also: Willie Wise, Moses Malone, Billy Cunningham

  • @markmartin8276
    @markmartin8276 3 месяца назад

    The Foctor was simply amazing fantastic incredible awesome

  • @williamj6974
    @williamj6974 4 месяца назад +1

    Dan Issel, George McGuiness, a lot more current NBA are the offspring of the ABA

  • @joemajor1156
    @joemajor1156 3 месяца назад

    You missed Larry Jones, who played for the Denver Rockets. He was a guard who scored very well.

  • @derekmiles6673
    @derekmiles6673 2 месяца назад +1

    The A train was one of my heros!

  • @delbertprince5302
    @delbertprince5302 3 месяца назад

    I heard a lot of great stories of Connie Hawkins in high school basketball....

  • @haikiofficial5923
    @haikiofficial5923 26 дней назад +1

    Plan to play in this 🏀🙏🏾

  • @richardmadrid866
    @richardmadrid866 4 месяца назад +1

    I used to go to the LOS ANGELES STARS games in 1970 coach Bill Sharmon beat Spencer Haywood Mel Daniel but los too Indiana pacers in the ABA championship 11,000 attendance I seen Rick Barry ,Larry Brown,Mack Calvin, Doug Moe's I like the 3 pointers the beach basketball I always sand in the front roll the next season the stars move to Utah.

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  4 месяца назад

      Thanks for sharing, I’m a bit jealous that you got to experience that!

  • @Tonyfuller-q9h
    @Tonyfuller-q9h Год назад +2

    RICK BARRY MAYBE THE MOST UNDERRATED SUPERSTAR OF ALL TIME! A OFFENSIVE JUGGERNAUT!!! ONE OF THE MOST EXPLOSIVE PLAYERS EVER. SCORING TITLES IN COLLEGE, ABA, & THE NBA, HE HAD A 40 POINT AVERAGE IN THE 1974-75 GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS CHAMPIONSHIP. YOU COULDN'T GUARD HIM, A GREAT PASSER, THE MOST UNIQUE FREE THROWS EVER, HE PLAYED HARD & PASSIONATE & A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH EVERYTIME HE TOOK THE COURT, PEOPLE THROW POLITICS & OTHER FACTORS IN THERE WHICH YOU CAN DO WITH THE MAJORITY OF PROFESSIONAL PLAYERS, BUT JUST BASKETBALL ITSELF, RICK BARRY IS ONE OF THE BEST, OF COURSE TOO 50 NBA PLAYERS OF ALL TIME & THEY BEAT THE OVERWHELMING FAVORITES WASHINGTON BULLETS 4-0 WHEN IT WAS PREDICTED THE WARRIORS WOULD LOSE 4-0 TO THE WASHINGTON BULLETS, RICK BARRY WAS THE MOTOR, HI OCTANE THEY HAD NO ANSWER FOR!!! SO DID OTHER TEAMS, UNSTOPPABLE IN HIS PRIME!!!

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  Год назад

      yessir i agree 100% public adversity follow barry everywhere he went, they criticized him for choices but he always showed up to play and was often times the best player on the court wherever he played. no one can take his legacy away, Rick Barry is an all timer without a doubt!

    • @antoniotutt4894
      @antoniotutt4894 9 месяцев назад +1

      Very close. But Elgin Baylor is the underrated. 🏀🏀🏀

    • @gandydancer9710
      @gandydancer9710 5 месяцев назад

      Learn not to SHOUT.

    • @NattyBumppo48
      @NattyBumppo48 29 дней назад

      Rick Barry was indeed a VERY talented player. His only short coming.... He was a first class prick.

  • @clydekimsey7503
    @clydekimsey7503 4 месяца назад

    Didnt artis Gilmore also play for the spurs?

  • @RAVISHINGRICKRUDERMD
    @RAVISHINGRICKRUDERMD 4 месяца назад +1

    Excellent Video bro 😎 🏀 💯

  • @woothasnice
    @woothasnice 3 месяца назад

    What happened to Dan Issel, Marvin Barnes and George McGinnis😮

  • @everettwilson1416
    @everettwilson1416 4 месяца назад

    I remember the aba. I watched it a lot. Their stats should be added.

  • @Mr.56Goldtop
    @Mr.56Goldtop 9 месяцев назад +3

    You should have at least given a shout out to Dan Issel of the Kentucky Colonels. Rookie of the Year in 1971 and a 6x all star.

  • @drobson8004
    @drobson8004 4 месяца назад

    A young David Thompson. Insane hops.

  • @pamparker4047
    @pamparker4047 20 дней назад

    If we had cable back then, the story would have been different ❤❤❤❤

  • @pilesovinyl
    @pilesovinyl 4 месяца назад +1

    You forgot about Roger Brown, he was truly great.

  • @thomaschristopher8593
    @thomaschristopher8593 3 месяца назад

    too bad we couldn't get Barry and Erving on the nets at the same time. later i read that Kareem was in talks about joining the NY nets, but nothing came of it. imagine that front line???.

  • @clarenceharris715
    @clarenceharris715 4 месяца назад

    From my memory it was Dr. J that brought the NBA and the ABA together

  • @chriszenko3598
    @chriszenko3598 6 месяцев назад +1

    The ABA teams that merged into the NBA where only allowed to keep one player and the rest of the players went into a draft. If they were allowed to stay intact especially the Nets and Nuggets they would have been top contending teams in the NBA

    • @SuperbSportMedia
      @SuperbSportMedia  6 месяцев назад

      We’ll never know for sure about how they’d do but man how about the ABA pacers compared to the NBA version huh

    • @chriszenko3598
      @chriszenko3598 6 месяцев назад

      @@SuperbSportMedia if you want a good ABA story to post. Research the best business deal in professional sports history pulled off by the owner of the old ABA St Louis Sprites His family still makes millions from the NBA every year