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October 6, 2000 | LON EUBANKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
The proposed ABA 2000 professional basketball league Thursday announced plans to begin play with eight teams in late December, and left the door open for the Anaheim Roadrunners to become the ninth. Al Howell, president of the proposed Anaheim franchise, said he "reached an agreement in principle" Thursday for his team to play at the Arrowhead Pond. Mike O'Donnell, the Pond's assistant general manager, confirmed the agreement.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
March 22, 2006 | David Pierson, Times Staff Writer
Inside a Maywood gymnasium, two basketball teams competed before mostly empty stands. It would have been easy to mistake the game for a local league contest or even a friendly scrimmage if not for the television camera crews and massive banners advertising Chinese telecommunications and furniture companies. Not many people in Maywood cared who won or lost the game.
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October 18, 2000 | DIANE PUCIN
Chances are the ABA isn't coming to Orange County. Thank goodness. The people who were pouring into the Pond Tuesday night by the ones and twos and sometimes even in huge groups of three to see the most famous basketball team in the world, had two questions about the ABA. What is it? And why would we want it? Answer No. 1 is easy. It is a minor-league attempt to bring an alleged version of pro basketball to arenas with empty dates in January. Answer No. 2 is easy also. We don't.
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August 16, 2000 | LON EUBANKS, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Proposed Anaheim and Los Angeles franchises in ABA 2000, a planned revival of the American Basketball Assn., came up with their wish lists of players Tuesday in the league's draft of veterans and first-year players. Anaheim selected Alabama guard Schea Cotton, a former high school standout at Mater Dei and Bellflower St. John Bosco, as its No. 1 pick among rookies, and Los Angeles took Long Beach State center Mate Milisa, the Big West Conference player of the year.
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March 9, 2004 | Lonnie White, Times Staff Writer
Ronnie Coleman has been a professional basketball player for 13 years, but he has never played in an NBA regular-season game. From one international league to another, Coleman has witnessed many strange things, but he experienced something new last month while playing for the Long Beach Jam. The Las Vegas Rattlers, one of the financially challenged franchises in the American Basketball Assn., did not have uniforms.
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July 26, 2006 | Michael Becker, Times Staff Writer
Fueled by memories of the American Basketball Assn. and its long-ago stars Julius Erving and Moses Malone, investor Duane Hughes happily paid $10,000 a year ago to buy a franchise in the revived league. Hughes, a former New York City rapper, secured a 10,000-seat arena for his ABA team, the Charlotte Krunk. He booked rap artist Mike Jones for postgame entertainment. He paid for jerseys, basketballs and $30,000 worth of TV commercials.