Long Shots Pt 6

The life and times of the American Basketball Association.

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• ABA
• American
• Basketball
• Association
• Dr
• Julius
• Erving
• George
• Gervin
• Rick
• Barry
• Connie
• Hawkins
• Larry
• Brown
• Hubie

[MrBennetzen]

Where can you get this documentry on DVD?

[matseretan]

It was made back in '98 before there were even DVDs and apparently was only released in very small numbers on VHS by HBO. I was very lucky to be able to find a copy on Amazon about three years ago.

[c9mavrick]

I love the docmentary movie. It's wonderful

[matseretan]

I firmly believe that it's the best piece ever done on the ABA.

[funksteady]

absolutely awesome video with pretty good quality image, ABA fan forever! thanx for posting

[matseretan]

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the video so much. Great moments and great memories for sure.

[proken58]

Auerbach was a hypocrite. He put down the ABA style, but jumped at the chance to sign an ABA-style player a few years after the merger - Larry Bird. Auerbach even pushed the NBA to adopt the ABA's 3 point shot, AFTER he signed Bird!

[redfanrod]

Let me elaborate. Look at 6:15: "Let 'em rot... cough..." Red would have lost no money had he allowed 6 ABA squads enter the NBA. Use the 3 pointer and flashy play of the ABA and the NBA wouldn't have struggled as it did financially in the 1970s. Red was a tyrant and narrow minded. Clearly the most influential excecutive in sports history but not always to a positive side. RIP

[jtcc1989]

ididnt know red auerbach was that cold harded about the aba.

[d820m]

I wish HBO would put this out on DVD and include a bonus disc of the either the '76 All-Star game or Game 6 of the last ABA Championship series that same year since HBO broadcast both of those games....i have the UCLA Dynasty DVD they put out.....

[zlatan43]

Auerbach just gives me all the more reason to hate all things Celtics.

Great video, very enjoyable.

[ExodusPessoa]

@proken58 that was an excellent point. I hate the Celtics so I'm a bit biased (lol).

[edburdine]

Thanks for finding this and posting! Boom Baby! Slick Leonard.

[Wehategod]

@jbare we all know that the ABA was the better league . Also the style now adays is the extact same style of play they had in the ABA. It was more than a Novelty it was a Stepping stone to the Future of Basketball. Dunk Contests and the Three Point line the Promotions and the Cheerleaders and music Preformers all these were first done in the ABA and the NBA got a swift kick in the nuts for that.

[plofus]

I just watched Showtimes Five hour doc on the AFL"Full color football" so I had to watch this,another good doc about a renegade league is showing on ESPN"s 30 in 30 series called"Small potato's who killed the USFL" or something like that,about the USFL.

[plofus]

I loved Mo Lucas he was the enforcer for the Blazers dishing out alot of punishment on the way to an NBA title in'77 & ten years later did the same thing with the sonics on their run to the west finals,that was one tough dude & the last real thug from that era when Pro B-ball was a contact sport.

Is Red Auerbach still alive? he really was a bitter old fuck.

[ejc003]

I mean god love 'em... he won all those championships... but what a complete a-hole. Hey, Red you won, the ABA went belly-up. But yet, he still piled on. The very definition of a bad winner.

[jbare63]

I get angry at the revisionist history the NBA provides for its fans. Without this league, the NBA doesnt come close to enjoying the success it has now.