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 don't know anything else. that's the game of basketball that you have been -- those of us that remember it before the three-point ...
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