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Marty Blake

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Marty Blake (March 22, 1927 – April 7, 2013) was a general manager of the Atlanta Hawks franchise, and the NBA's longtime Director of Scouting. [1]

34 relations: ABA–NBA merger, American Basketball Association, Atlanta Hawks, Ben Wallace, Blog, Continental Basketball Association, Dennis Rodman, Dino Meneghin, General manager, Italy, Jack Sikma, Joe Dumars, John Bunn Award, Karl Malone, Lenny Wilkens, Manuel Raga, Mexico, Milwaukee, Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, National Invitation Tournament, Orlando Sentinel, Paterson, New Jersey, Pittsburgh Condors, Point guard, Providence College, Scottie Pippen, Terry Porter, The New York Times, Tim Hardaway, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1958 NBA Finals, 1960 NBA draft, 1970 NBA draft.

ABA–NBA merger

The ABA–NBA merger was the merger of the American Basketball Association (ABA) with the National Basketball Association (NBA), which after multiple attempts over several years occurred in 1976.

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American Basketball Association

The original American Basketball Association (ABA) was a men's professional basketball league, from 1967 to 1976.

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Atlanta Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Hawks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at Philips Arena. The team's origins can be traced to the establishment of the Buffalo Bisons in 1946 in Buffalo, New York, a member of the National Basketball League (NBL) owned by Ben Kerner and Leo Ferris. After 38 days in Buffalo, the team moved to Moline, Illinois, where they were renamed the Tri-Cities Blackhawks. In 1949, they joined the NBA as part of the merger between the NBL and the Basketball Association of America (BAA), and briefly had Red Auerbach as coach. In 1951, Kerner moved the team to Milwaukee, where they changed their name to the Hawks. Kerner and the team moved again in 1955 to St. Louis, where they won their only NBA championship in 1958 and qualified to play in the NBA Finals in 1957, 1960 and 1961. The Hawks played the Boston Celtics in all four of their trips to the NBA Finals. The St. Louis Hawks moved to Atlanta in 1968, when Kerner sold the franchise to Thomas Cousins and former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders. The Hawks currently own the second-longest drought (behind the Sacramento Kings) of not winning an NBA championship at 60 seasons. The franchise's lone NBA championship, as well as all four NBA Finals appearances, occurred when the team was based in St. Louis. Meanwhile, they went 48 years without advancing past the second round of the playoffs in any format, until finally breaking through in 2015. Much of the failure they have experienced in the postseason can be traced back to their poor history in the NBA draft. Since 1980, the Hawks have drafted only four players who have been chosen to play in an NBA All-Star Game (Doc Rivers, Kevin Willis, Al Horford, and Jeff Teague). Dominique Wilkins was actually selected by the Utah Jazz and traded to the Hawks a few months after the draft. Horford and Teague are the only All-Star Hawks to have been drafted since Willis was selected in 1984, and Horford is also the only first-rounder the Hawks selected in their nine-year playoff drought to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

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Ben Wallace

Ben Camey Wallace (born September 10, 1974) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Continental Basketball Association

The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) was a professional men's basketball minor league in the United States.

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Dennis Rodman

Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is an American retired professional basketball player who played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Dino Meneghin

Dino Meneghin (born January 18, 1950) is an Italian former professional basketball player.

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General manager

A General Manager is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility.

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Jack Sikma

Jack Wayne Sikma (born November 14, 1955) is an American retired basketball center.

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Joe Dumars

Joe Dumars III (born May 24, 1963) is an American retired basketball player in the National Basketball Association.

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John Bunn Award

The John Bunn Award—in full, the John W. Bunn Lifetime Achievement Award—is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to an individual who has contributed significantly to the sport of basketball.

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Karl Malone

Karl Anthony Malone (born July 24, 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Lenny Wilkens

Leonard Randolph Wilkens (born October 28, 1937) is an American retired basketball player and coach in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Manuel Raga

Manuel "Manolo" Raga Navarro (born March 14, 1944) is a retired Mexican professional basketball player.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the largest city in the state of Wisconsin and the fifth-largest city in the Midwestern United States.

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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is an American history museum and hall of fame, located at 1000 Hall of Fame Avenue in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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National Invitation Tournament

The National Invitation Tournament (NIT) is a men's college basketball tournament operated by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region.

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Paterson, New Jersey

Paterson is the largest city in and the county seat of Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Pittsburgh Condors

The Pittsburgh Condors were a professional basketball team in the original American Basketball Association.

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Point guard

The point guard (PG), also called the one or point, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game.

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Providence College

Providence College (also known as Providence or PC) is a private, coeducational, Roman Catholic university located about two miles west of downtown Providence, Rhode Island, United States, the state's capital city.

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Scottie Pippen

Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association.

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Terry Porter

Terry Porter (born April 8, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and former player in the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Tim Hardaway

Timothy Duane Hardaway (born September 1, 1966) is an American retired basketball player, currently serving as an assistant coach for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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Wilkes University

Wilkes University is a private, non-denominational American university located in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with branch centers in Mesa, Arizona and Bartonsville, Pennsylvania.

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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

Wilkes-Barre is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Luzerne County.

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1958 NBA Finals

The 1958 NBA World Championship Series was the championship series for the 1957–58 National Basketball Association (NBA) season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs.

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1960 NBA draft

The 1960 NBA draft was the 14th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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1970 NBA draft

The 1970 NBA draft was the 24th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Blake

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