re: Rank the logos ABA edition

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I was a regular at the Buccaneers games at the old Loyola Field House.


Was the court there elevated and the players ran the risk of falling off on one end? Or am I totally imagining that or confusing it with another place...

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No, your memory is correct. Eventually they installed a net. Some of the later games were at Tulane Gym (now Fogelman). The tickets were only a buck and a half. Larry Brown and Doug Moe were early stars on the team.

And the Bucs lost game 7 of the championship series by 20 or so. Connie Hawkins ate them alive. I was bummed. Watched it on channel 26 WGNO, an independent UHF station then.

That deal ended in 2014. But it wasn't the NBA in total, it was only the 4 former ABA teams that came over in the merger:

When the ABA merged with the NBA, four teams (the Nuggets, Pacers, Nets, and Spurs) were absorbed, while the Spirits of St. Louis and the Kentucky Colonels were asked to disband. The Colonels' owner accepted a $3 million buyout, but the Silna brothers rejected the offer. Instead, they negotiated an ingenious contract that provided $2 million upfront in cash, and one-seventh of the national television revenues generated by the four former ABA teams in perpetuity

Initially, the cut only yielded modest annual payments of a few hundred thousand dollars. However, as the NBA exploded in global popularity and signed massive television rights packages, the Silnas' annual payout skyrocketed, reaching over $20 million per year. Because this contract severely cut into the revenue dividends of 4 active NBA team owners, the league spent years seeking a way out of the deal.

In 2014, the NBA finally reached a settlement with the Silna brothers. The league agreed to pay a lump sum of $500 million to permanently terminate the ongoing TV revenue agreement. Combined with the money they had already received over the decades, the Silna brothers made an estimated $800 million from a $1 million investment.