Even 20 years later, ABA lives on Establishment-bucking league lives on in memories for many

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: February 11, 1996| Author: RICK MORRISSEY | Copyright information

It was black or white. Either you liked the red-white-and-blue basketball or you didn't.

It had nothing to do with being American. Almost the opposite, in fact. The National Basketball Association could trace its brown leather ball to James Naismith. The American Basketball Association seemed to trace its red-white-and-blue ball to Timothy Leary. When an ABA ball rotated toward the basket, a vague, anti-establishment feeling spun along with it.

The kids who played with an ABA ba...

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