The Pittsburgh Pipers were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967 and won the league’s first championship. Then promptly moved to Minnesota, only to move back to Pittsburgh after one season. When that didn’t improve their situation, the team changed its name to the Pittsburgh Condors.
The New Jersey Americans were charter members of the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967. After one year in Teaneck, New Jersey, the team moved to Long Island to become the New York Nets.
New York was to be the home of one of the first eleven teams to play in the American Basketball Association (ABA) in 1967, the year that league debuted. However, the franchise, awarded to trucking magnate Arthur J. Brown, had trouble finding a home in the Big Apple and wound up in New Jersey. Island and became the New York Nets. They eventually moved back to New Jersey,
Today’s Brooklyn Nets have a tangled, New York/New Jersey border-hopping history dating back to the formation of the ABA back in 1967.
Formed: June 6, 1946 Ceased: August 3, 1949 (Basketball Association of America and National Basketball League merge to form the National Basketball Association) First Game:
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