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ABA Stories: Part 1 | With Julius Erving and Terry Pluto
ABA Stories: Part 1 | With Julius Erving and Terry Pluto
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Length:
86 minutes
Released:
Mar 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In Part 1 of a two-part series, Ryen Russillo talks with Basketball Hall of Fame legend Julius Erving about his time playing for the Virginia Squires, his famous Atlanta Hawks exhibition games, the "Ice Man" George Gervin, ABA fist fights, winning an ABA title with the New York Nets, and finding his basketball “home” in Philadelphia (3:30). Then Ryen talks with Terry Pluto, renowned sportswriter and author of ‘Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association,’ about the fast-and-loose ABA, its aggressive competition with the NBA, chaotic drafts, money troubles, ever-present merger rumors, and so much more (40:15).
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Released:
Mar 29, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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