1972-73 Memphis Tams Program from the American Basketball Association

Memphis Tams

American Basketball Association (1972-1974)

Tombstone

Born: 1972 – Re-Branded from Memphis Pros
Re-Branded: July 24, 1974 (Memphis Sounds)1ASSOCIATED PRESS. “ABA Memphis renamed Sounds”. The Miami News (Miami, FL). July 25, 1974

First Game: October 12, 1972 (L 109-105 vs. Indiana Pacers)
Last Game:
March 28, 1974 (L 107-105 vs. Kentucky Colonels)

ABA Championships: None

Arena

Mid-South Coliseum (10,981)21972-73 Memphis Tams Media Guide
Opened:1964
Closed:2006

Marketing

Team Colors: Kelly Green, California Gold & Polar Bear White31972-73 Memphis Tams Media Guide

Radio:

  • 1972-73: WREC (600 AM)

Radio Broadcaster:

  • 1972-73: Dick Palmer

Ownership

 

Background

Coming soon…

 

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Editor's Pick

Loose Balls

The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association
By Terry Pluto
 

What do Julius Erving, Larry Brown, Moses Malone, Bob Costas, the Indiana Pacers, the San Antonio Spurs and the Slam Dunk Contest have in common? They all got their professional starts in the American Basketball Association.

The NBA may have won the financial battle, but the ABA won the artistic war. With its stress on wide-open individual play, the adoption of the 3-point shot and pressing defense, and the encouragement of flashy moves and flying dunks, today’s NBA is still—decades later —just the ABA without the red, white and blue ball.

Loose Balls is, after all these years, the definitive and most widely respected history of the ABA. It’s a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports—told entirely through the (often incredible) words of those who played, wrote and connived their way through the league’s nine seasons..

 

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In Memoriam

Tams owner Charles O. Finley died on February 19th, 1996 at the age of 77. New York Times obituary.

 

Links

American Basketball Association Media Guides

American Basketball Association Programs

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