Talk:American Basketball League (1925–1955)

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• I am removing this erroneous content: "The ABL for many years was the top pro basketball league in the United States of America, but the teams were generally run by promoters with little or no money. After World War II, the arena owners in the large cities looked to take advantage of the pro basketball following established by these promoters but retain the ownership of the teams for themselves. Hence the Basketball Association of America was formed and the Cleveland Rosenblums became the Cleveland Rebels; the Boston Whirlwinds became the Boston Celtics, and the original Celtics were supplanted by the New York Knickerbockers. In fact, only Eddie Gottlieb, the promoter of the Philadelphia Sphas, survived by working a back room deal with the Philadelphia Arena to keep his Philadelphia operation. Gottlieb retained the Sphas in the ABL while naming the NBA franchise the Warriors."

None of the ABL teams "became" future NBA teams, and the Boston Celtics were not related to the Boston Whirlwinds (or to the Original Celtics). Where the error came about is in someone editing the article as first posted [1], and then making their own assumptions about what the author's musings: "Hence the Basketball Association of America was formed and instead of the Cleveland Rosenblums you got the Cleveland Rebels; instead of the Boston Whirlwinds there was the Boston Celtics, and the Original Celtics were supplanted by the New Yoek Knickerbockers." The original posting was simply observing that there were new teams in Cleveland, Boston, and New York.

There are some very good sources about the ABL, and I'll be continuing improvement of this article. Mandsford 12:52, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Almost useless article

It does not even explain why and how the ABL was dissolved, what commentary sport analysts, major coaches and players were giving to that event back in 1955, so on. 93.80.36.79 (talk) 21:50, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

Article should be split.

This article covers two different leagues that just happen to have the same name. There's no indication that they're related in any way beyond that. I think the article should be split. At the least, the current title misleading implies there was a single, continuous operation for thirty years. There was not. oknazevad (talk) 17:59, 17 December 2019 (UTC)