Defunct Basketball Shorts
Description: Celebrate basketball history with this American Basketball Association (ABA) tee! Founded in 1967, the ABA revolutionized the game with the three-point line, colorful red-white-blue ball, and flashy style before merging with the NBA in 1976. A classic for hoops fans!
1967 ABA American Basketball Association Defunct Vintage Shorts
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$21 $27
Description: Celebrate basketball history with this American Basketball Association (ABA) tee! Founded in 1967, the ABA revolutionized the game with the three-point line, colorful red-white-blue ball, and flashy style before merging with the NBA in 1976. A classic for hoops fans!
1967 American Basketball Association ABA Defunct Vintage Shorts
by TeeNation
$21 $27
The Richfield Coliseum Defunct Basketball Stadium Arena Shorts
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$21 $27
Description: The Pipers were one of the ABA's inaugural franchises in 1967. The team had great success on the court, posting the league's best record during the regular season (54-24, .692) and winning the league's first ABA Championship. The Pipers were led by their star player, ABA MVP and future Hall-of-Famer Connie Hawkins, who led the ABA in scoring at 26.8 ppg. The Pipers swept through the 1968 ABA Playoffs and defeated the New Orleans Buccaneers 4 games to 3 to take the title, with Hawkins earning Finals MVP honors. The ABA title remains Pittsburgh's only pro basketball championship.
Description: The Carolina Cougars were a basketball franchise in the American Basketball Association that existed from 1969 through 1974. The Cougars were originally a charter member of the ABA as the Houston Mavericks in 1967. The Mavericks moved to North Carolina in late 1969 after two unsuccessful seasons in Houston at the Sam Houston Coliseum.
Description: The Pittsburgh Condors were a professional basketball team in the original American Basketball Association from 1971-72. Originally called the Pittsburgh Pipers, they were a charter franchise of the ABA and captured the first league title. The team played their home games in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena.
Description: The Pittsburgh Condors were a professional basketball team in the original American Basketball Association from 1971-72. Originally called the Pittsburgh Pipers, they were a charter franchise of the ABA and captured the first league title in 1968. The team played their home games in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. The team was dispersed in 1972. Pittsburgh was not big enough to support all four major league sports.
Description: The Baltimore Claws was an American basketball team which was supposed to appear in the 1975–76 season in the American Basketball Association. The team collapsed before the season started, playing only three exhibition games, all losses, in its brief history. The team that eventually became the Baltimore Claws had earlier competed in the ABA as the New Orleans Buccaneers from 1967 through 1970, as the Memphis Pros from 1970 through 1972, as the Memphis Tams from 1972 through 1974 and as the Memphis Sounds during the 1974–75 season. This is what the team would have looked like if they stayed in NOLA.
Description: The La Crosse Catbirds was an American basketball team based in La Crosse, Wisconsin and member of the Continental Basketball Association. The Catbirds were the 1990 and 1992 CBA champions. The team moved to La Crosse from Louisville in 1985, and left La Crosse for Pittsburgh in May 1994.
Description: The Omaha Racers were an American minor league basketball team based in Omaha, Nebraska. The franchise played in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) from 1989 to 1997. The team's franchise liage started in 1982 as the Wisconsin Flyers. The franchise spent two seasons in Rochester, Minnesota before relocating to Omaha in 1989 to become the Racers.
Description: The Baltimore Metros were a basketball team based in Baltimore, Maryland that was a member of the Continental Basketball Association. The team was previously known as the Washington Metros. During the 1978/79 season, the team moved to Utica and became the Mohawk Valley Thunderbirds.
Description: The Baltimore Hustlers were a basketball team that was scheduled to play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1975. The team was originally the Memphis Sounds, but the name was changed to the Hustlers before being changed again to the Claws due to local opposition and pressure from the league. The team played three exhibition games as the Claws before folding.
The Summit Arena - Defunct Houston Basketball Stadium Shorts
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$21 $27
Description: San Diego Conquistadors were the first and only expansion team in the American Basketball Association, playing from 1972 to 1975. Frank Goldberg (who formerly held ownership interest in the Denver Nuggets) bought the San Diego Conquistadors, assuming the $2 million team debt. They soon renamed the team, becoming the San Diego Sails. However, they folded 11 games into the season.
