| 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 start 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 three-point basket and pressing defense, and the selling of flashy moves and flying dunks, today's NBA is just the ABA without the red-whie-and-blue ball. Loose Balls, the first history of the ABA, is a wild ride through some of the wackiest, funniest, strangest times ever to hit pro sports - told entirely through the words of those who played, wrote, and connived their way through the league's nine seasons.
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