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CARMEL Dixieland jazz, sounding like a party on the streets of New Orleans, blared as people filled Carmel United Methodist Church. Life as Bobby Slick Leonard knew it was a celebration, a place to do good on earth, love others, lift people up and have fun.
The blanket of snow that had graced Indiana that morning was surely his dad s doing, his son Billy Leonard said.
Beyond Leonard s accolades in basketball and his hall of fame status, he was a husband, a father, a grandfather, a coach and a friend. And he loved to joke.
First, the snow fell in late April the morning of Leonard s funeral and then the lyrics to What a Friend We Have in Jesus, didn t appear on the screen as funeral attendees stood up to sing.
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Today, the American Basketball Association is preparing for its All-Star Game and Final Eight Tournament, to be played April 15 to April 18 in St. Louis, Missouri. But 45 years ago in 1976, the original incarnation of the ABA was coming to an end. After its final series of playoffs, four of the remaining teams would be rolled into the National Basketball Association. The influx of teams and talent, and the eventual absorption of the ABA’s three-point line, would add excitement to the NBA on the way to the league’s explosive burst of popularity in the 1980s.
The original ABA launched in 1967. While the various owners did want to field a competitive league, they also eyed the notion of merging with the pre-existing NBA at a future date. The idea was predicated on the fact that an ABA buy-in was much smaller, and that owners would stand to make much more if their team transitioned to the other league. The ABA also targeted cities and states that had no NBA market at the time
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