CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar December 16, 2021 13:44:00
Saperstein in 1961 started a league called the american basketball league, he hoped to be competitive with the nba, and he brought in a three-point shot as a gimmick to stimulate interest among casual fans and to do -- to differentiate it from the nba. and then made its gradual progression after that league folded in a year and a half from the eastern league to the nba in -- the aba in 1966, the nba in 1979, and colleges in 1986 so that if you are 50 years old, you dont know anything else. thats...
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