The summer of 1976 saw the ABA-NBA merger finally take place. As part of the merger agreement, four teams from the ABAthe Nets, Nuggets, Pacers and San Antonio Spursjoined the NBA. The Nets and Nuggets had actually applied to join the NBA in 1975, but were forced to play a lame-duck season in the ABA by court order.[9] Prior to their first NBA season, the Nets traded two draft picks to the Kansas City Kings for guard Nate Archibald. The Nets appeared to be poised to pick up where they left off in the ABA.
However, they got a rude surprise when the NBA forced the Nets to pay an additional .8 million directly to the Knicks for "invading" the New York area. Coming on the heels of the .2 million that the team had to pay for joining the NBA, this left Boe short of cash, and he was forced to renege on a promised pay raise for Erving. Erving refused to play for the Nets under these conditions and refused to report to camp.The Nets offered Erving's contract to the Knicks in return for waiving the indemnity, wholesale jerseys but the Knicks turned it down.[10] When the Philadelphia 76ers offered to acquire Erving for millionroughly the same amount they had to pay for NBA membership--Boe had little choice but to accept. In essence, the Nets were forced to trade their franchise player for a berth in the NBA.The Nets continued their winning ways in the 197576 seasonthe final season for the ABAwith Erving leading them to a successful 55-win season; he also was named MVP again that year. After a grueling series with the Denver Nuggets, the Nets won the last ABA championship series in league history in six games,[8] giving the Nets their second championship in three years.
Without Erving, the Nets wrote off the season as a lost cause. However, they lost all semblance of respectability when Archibald broke his foot in January. The team finished at 2260, the worst record in the league. The team did set one record of sorts; in February 1977, they became the first NBA team ever to have an all-left-handed starting lineup,[11] with Tim Bassett, Al Skinner, Bubbles Hawkins, Dave Wohl, and Kim Hughes.Prior to the 197778 season, Boe moved the franchise back to New Jersey, and renamed the team the New Jersey Nets. While the team awaited the completion of a new arena at the Meadowlands Sports Complex, Soccer jerseys they played four seasons at the Rutgers Athletic Center (later renamed the Louis Brown Athletic Center) on the Kilmer Campus (now "Livingston" Campus) of Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ. In 1978, Boe sold the team to a group of seven local businessmen (led by Joe Taub and Alan N. Cohen) who became known as the "Secaucus Seven". (The name was a reference to the John Sayles movie Return of the Secaucus 7, which itself was a pun on the 60s radical group the Chicago Seven.) The first four years in New Jersey were disappointing, as the Nets failed to post a winning season.
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Which NBA team has the sexiest jerseys?
Everyone talks about all the hot basketball players and hot tennis players. But no one ever talks about what they wear. Which NBA team has the best uniform that makes their players look hot.
Lakers have some good ones, but they are yellow so I don’t know about that. Celtics jerseys are probably the best but I hate them.
What NBA team do you think has the best retro jerseys?
Some teams have more choices of retro jerseys than others. From what you have seen, who do you think has the best retro jerseys??
My choice would be the Cavs. They have like 4 different retro jerseys and they all pretty much look really good.
Ahh I forgot all about the W’s jerseys. They have some nice throw backs too!
The Warriors I think have the second best. They have the blue and yellow “City” jerseys and they are pretty awesome. Also they have the inverted version of that and it’s the yellow and blue one.
The Cavaliers have similar jerseys to the Warriors and they look all pretty cool. The Cavaliers also have the orange ones and those are some of my personal favorites. They also have the red and yellow ones and those are some of my favorites.
The Lakers retro throwbacks and the swingman are awesome. I like those but not the Minneapolis Lakers jerseys.
I also like the Sonic’s retro jerseys (when they were the Sonics) I don’t know of Oklahoma City Thunder wore these, but they are the red and green logo with the inverted green or white color. Those are some of my personal favorites.
The Cavaliers are the best, and they have the nicest retro jerseys.
Looking for a website that features pics of all the NBA jerseys(of all teams) that ever existed in history?
i was trying to look for pictures of the jerseys that the NBA teams have ever had in the history, including the retro ones and the ones that the NBA teams are using. can i find these at any website? thanks in advance.
I’m having difficulty finding such a site, but you could start with:
http://www.nba.com/history/
you’ll probably have to go through the photo galleries and the team history pages, both of which have links on that main page… good luck!
who’s incharge in the design of an NBA Team uniforms or jerseys?
does the NBA design all the uniform/jersey of all teams?or every team has the right to design their own uniform?do they have to secure permit when they want to change the design of their team uniform?
They have the right to design their own uniforms
Are all the NBA teams doing the green jerseys tommorow?
So on Thurs. and Sat. the Nugs are wearing green jerseys to the games because of environment awareness week or something like that. I think I heard all teams are doing that………….true or false?
yeah, it’s true. it’s part of NBA Green Week, which happening 4/2 – 4/10. Every team in the league has to have at least one green-themed game during this week.