The ABA Parallel League
American Basketball Association

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SINGLE SEASON
PARALLEL LEAGUE:
In order to ensure that the ABA league is not TOO THIN,
The East and West Conferences will operate as their own independent league in regard to players and the draft, but will play a regular WHAT IF schedule.
The two drafts will be held simultaneously.

Players will be exclusive within the conference. There will be two Dr. J’s and two Artis Gilmores, and Dan Issel will be on two teams.
Dr. J Issel, A. Gilmore and the rest of the players can be on only one team in the East and on only One team in the West.
Example: The Eastern team picking first has access to any player, and selects Dr. J; The Western team picking first has access to any player and they are also able to pick Dr. J; The second team from the East selects Artis Gilmore, while the second team from the West selects whoever they want ( Mel Daniels?)...


The league that forced a Free Wheeling - Wide Open brand of Basketball on the Country is here.

With the players spread across two conferences of 12 each,
I expect a WILD WEST SHOW of offense

So get out your Bell Bottoms, Dust off those old Disco records, and plug in the ol’ Lava Lamp –
The league that brought you the HUGE AFRO, not to mention the slam dunk contest is ready.
So are tales of fist fights, drug abuse and wasted talent.

Dr. J, George ‘The Iceman’ Gervin , Artis Gilmore, Rick Barry, Connie Hawkins, Moses Malone, George McGinnis, Dan 'The Horse' Issel, Mel Daniels, Maurice Lucas, Mack Calvin, David Thompson, 'Bad News' Barnes, Dampier, Darnel 'Dr.Dunk' Hilman, James 'Capt.Late' Silas, Willie Wise, Spencer Haywood, Larry 'Special K' Kenon, 'Whopper' Paultz, Charlie Scott, ‘Mr. Excitement’ Wendell Ladner, thugs like Warren Jabali and John Brisker, Red Robbins, Roger Brown, “Fatty” and “Goo”, and Gerald Govan’s glasses.

Reference site
http://www.basketball-reference.com/

A decent site for the ABA history
http://www.remembertheaba.com/TributeMaterial/30YearTeamTribute.html


GREAT site for ABA history
http://www.nasljerseys.com/ABA/Players/ABAPlayers_Roster.htm

1. Kentucky Colonels - cmcafeeky
2. San Diego Conquistadors - cmcafeeky
3. Utah Stars - Seapilots
4. New York Nets - Seapilots
5. Virginia Squires - dh555
6. Pittsburg Pipers - shine06
7. Baltimore Claws - kern_82
8. Dallas Chaparrals -  jpeterso
9. Anaheim Amigos - poddy
10. Minnesota Muskies - skypilot
11. Oakland Oaks - skypilot
12. Pittsburgh Condors - jcred
13. Los Angles Stars - rubnsly
14. Memphis Tams - rubnsly
15. Memphis Sounds - thohoops
16.  Spirit of St. Louis - pharoop
17. Carolina Cougars - boredfatguy
18. Miami Floridians - siedek
19. San Antonio Spurs - coolmay_one
20. New Orleans Buccaneers - alopez
21. Minnesota Pipers - 98average
22. carbonjones
23. Denver Nuggets - longtallbrad
24. New Jersey Americans - roadhouse 19

waiting list -

Available Franchises

Denver Rockets
Houston Mavericks
Indiana Pacers
San Diego Sails
Washington Capitals

General Rules

Commish: cmcafeeky

Parallel: 24 team league split into two parallel leagues. Each Conference holds simultaneous drafts, with every ABA player eligible to both conferences.

Format: Single Season, Forum Draft, Era Limited, Single Instance player availability

no cap - unlimited payroll

Forum Draft: AB-BA-BA-BA-BA draft sequence. Rounds 9 & 10, two picks per round. A,1-24 / B, 24-1

Random Draft Order: Random Draw (by NY Lottery 'Quick Draw') Once the 12 team order has been determined for the East, if an owner with TWO franhcise draws one of the first four picks in the East, he will not be eligible for a top four pick in the West.

Conference Assignment: Random - If two teams who adopted an ABA Franchise name with same city or the same nickname, they will be split into separate conferences. i.e. If there are Minnesota Muskies and Minnesota Pipers, the two teams will be placed in separate conferences, as would The Utah Stars and Los Angeles Stars be seperated.

Division Assignment: Im open to debate here: (Random) (1-6 & 7-12) (ABABAB)

Available player pool: WIS players, seasons 1967-68 thru 1975-76 (set your filter..)
Team salary cap: unlimited
No clones
No Waiver Wire
No Rookies
No Trading

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I'm in
Utah Stars & New York Nets

im in with my old regressive league team....Virginia Squires

In Pittsburgh Pipers

So ABA only?  No Kareem, Cowens or Havlicek?  I love a progressive league, just worried even with 12 teams will it be thin.  And minor question, but if ABA only is there a good way to filter in the database?

jcred5 -

yes aba only, no Havlicek, Kareem, Cowens etc.

there is a series of decades leagues- and the aba AND NBA will be included in that-
the ABA parallel league will be a good sprig board into the decade 70s league. - I hope to be up ad running before the 70s decade starts.

Its not a progressive - a one year only thing - I tried the same theme as a progressive a few years back and it stalled.
I would like to do the ABA progressive - but that's for another day.

No there would not be a good filtering system - I suppose it would help those who know the ABA from the NBA squads -
67-68 through 75-76 seasons-

I will post all the eligible ABA teams for the league on the theme page as we draw near- I think there are about 100 individual unique seasonal teams from the 9 year ABA tenure.

I'm in with the Baltimore Claws

cool pick Kern 82-

The Baltimore Claws never participated in a league game-

After the Kentucky Colonels won the title in '75 - John Y. Brown sold Dan Issel to the

drum roll please...

The Baltimore Claws-

they soon folded and somehow the Denver Nuggets were able to swoop In and claim / sign Issel.

John Y. Brown became super wealthy via owning Kentucky Fired Chicken. He went on to become Gov. of Kentucky, but I'll always remember him as the dumb@ss who took a monetary buy out (3.3 Million) to drop his claim to enter the NBA, and fold the Kentucky Colonels.

Meanwhile the owners of the Spirits of St. Louis, the Silnas brothers, are multi millionaires many times over by not taking a monetary buyout to drop out of the NBA, instead settling for a percentage of future television rights - They had earned $255 million through 2012 and supposedly took a additional lump sum in 2014 of $500 MILLION to end the yearly cut of television revenues.

John Y. Brown folded the Ky Colonels - Karma is a *****.... to the tune of over $750 mil compared to his $3.3 - jackass

I will join

Minnesota Muskies and Oakland Oaks for skypilot