Talk:American Basketball Association

message: This article is about the ABA only, not movies based on it. To include a paragraph about Semi-Pro in the "League history" section is totally inappropriate. Not only is it unrelated to the history of the ABA, but the information is also completely trivial. Please familiarize yourself with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines before you revert again. Bash Kash (talk) 07:29, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-Pro 

message: Perhaps it should be mentioned somewhere on the ABA wikipedia page the story about the famous (or infamous) deal that the Spirits of St. Louis owners received from the NBA, upon the 1976 merger.
http://espn.go.com/nba/s/2001/1213/1295194.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.86.201.180 (talk) 08:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: St. Louis deal

message: I was under the impression that the new ABA is not associated with the old ABA. Is this correct? The title of this section might give readers the wrong idea that the two are in fact associated. Bash Kash (talk) 19:45, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Succession" section 

message: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/sports/basketball/the-new-aba-is-a-quirky-chaotic-league.html?_r=0
Would a criticism section be okay for this article based on this source, or would it be too harsh and damaging to the reputation? what do you wikipedians think?
Robert4565 (talk) 12:47, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: New section

message: The Prominent players section needs to establish some criteria for inclusion, otherwise it will be forever subject to POV disputes.  For example, a user has recently chosen to add (and re-add) a player who never won any post-season awards, never led the league in any statistic, never played in an ABA All-Star Game, only played in one season, didn't even average double figures in points, and only scored two total points in the playoffs.  Does this sound like the sort of player that an objective reader would consider prominent?  I would think that any player added to the list would have received at least one post-season award. — Myasuda (talk) 02:12, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. If Fly Williams was featured in a documentary on the St Louis Spirits, then he may be prominent enough to be mentioned on that team's page, but not for the league page. Laszlo Panaflex (talk) 03:45, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I vote just to delete that section.  The were lots of prominent players in the original ABA and all ABA players are notable per WP:NBASKETBALL.  I'd also vote against a "prominent players" section in any franchise article - best to stick to an "award winners" section as this would be objective criteria. Rikster2 (talk) 23:44, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prominent players 

message: Do they need pages created for each Finals held (1968-1976), or should it just be left to the ABA Playoffs page for each year to talk about it? Wikidude10000 (talk) 23:53, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ABA Finals 

message: In the Teams section, it refers to the Dallas Chaparrals/Texas Chaparrals/San Antonio Spurs as "One of two ABA franchises where two or more markets team played currently have an NBA team each." This is because the Spurs themselves still play in San Antonio, while Dallas has had the Mavericks since 1980.
But there aren't only two ABA franchises that meet that criterion.
The Anaheim Amigos/Los Angeles Stars/Utah Stars have two of their home markets represented in the NBA by the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Clippers, and the Utah Jazz.
The Minnesota Muskies/Miami Floridians have their home markets represented in the NBA by the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Miami Heat.
The New Orleans Buccaneers/Memphis Pros/Tams/Sounds have two of their home markets represented in the NBA by the New Orleans Pelicans and the Memphis Grizzlies.
And the Oakland Americans/Oaks/Washington Capitals/Virginia Squires have two of their home markets represented in the NBA by the Golden State Warriors and the Washington Wizards.
So that's five ABA franchises which have two of their markets represented in the NBA now. 
(I'm not counting the Houston Mavericks/Carolina Cougars/Spirits of St. Louis as meeting that criterion, because the Cougars were based in Greensboro and only played in Charlotte part time.) --Metropolitan90 (talk) 06:36, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "One of two ABA franchises where two or more markets team played currently have an NBA team each" 

message: The slam dunk contest is mentioned in the league history section of the article but there is not very much detail given as to why the event occurred or who won. The dunk contest is important to the history of the league because it carried over into the NBA and was put on to help ensure that the All Star game would be exciting. The owners wanted an entertaining event because they figured it would assist in getting a merger with the NBA. My plan is to add a brief history of the dunk contest so that there is more than the brief mention. Agray1231 (talk) 06:58, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Slam Dunk Contest

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Specifically, the line that says "In addition to the four surviving ABA teams, eight current NBA markets have ABA heritage: Utah, Dallas, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Memphis, Minnesota and Charlotte all had an ABA team before the NBA arrived." which to me implies Minnesota did not have an NBA team before the ABA team came to town. That isn't true because the Minneapolis Lakers were in Minnesota (in Minneapolis where the Timberwolves play) in the 40s and 50s a decade before the Minnesota Muskies.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.31.124.25 (talk) 17:50, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minnesota NBA market having "ABA Heritage"