Bill Simmons, the Sports Guy, is excerpting his "Book of Basketball" on ESPN, and again Friday had a historical nugget on the Nets' early history. If the first excerpt on how the ABA-NBA merger screwed the Nets wasn't depressing enough, how about this: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wanted to be a Net coming out of UCLA but a forgotten million dollar check ended his dream.
- What If the ABA had Landed Kareem? - Bill Simmons - ESPN