The Denver Nuggets are the last of the four ABA teams that merged with the NBA to reach the Finals.
FILE - Denver Nuggets' Bobby Jones, second left, Nets' Julius Erving, fourth left, and New York Nets' Jim Eakins, right, battle for a rebound during the ABA championship playoff game at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y., on May 14, 1976. The Denver Nuggets are the last of the four ABA teams that merged with the NBA to reach the Finals and is stirring up fond memories of the defunct league.
“The new NBA is like the old ABA,” David Thompson, ‘The Skywalker,’ told The Associated Press in a phone interview from his home in Charlotte, North Carolina. “This Nuggets team, we’re pulling for them. I want them to finish the job that we didn’t quite get done.” FILE - Denver's Dan Issel reacts as he watches his shot fall short of the basket as he shot over Kent Benson of the Milwaukee Bucks during first quarter of an NBA basketball game on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1979 in Milwaukee. The Denver Nuggets are the last of the four ABA teams that merged with the NBA to reach the Finals and is stirring up fond memories of the defunct league.
“I thought, ‘There’s only one basketball league and one hockey league, so why not have another?’” Murphy said in the 1990 book ‘Loose Balls’ by Terry Pluto that recounts the history of the ABA. “Since I knew nothing about hockey, and basketball was my favorite sport, I figured I’d pursue the idea of a basketball league.”
To close out the season, the Nuggets faced Dr. J and the New York Nets in the last ABA final. Erving and the Nets beat Issel, Thompson and coach Larry Brown, 4-2. This year, Jones & Co., are celebrating the fact that it’s the Nuggets who are good. It took 47 seasons in the NBA to make their first Finals. Making it more sweet was that they did it against the establishment — the Los Angeles Lakers, a team that had beaten them in seven of seven playoff series over the decades before Denver swept LeBron James and his Lakers out of the playoffs.
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