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'Semi-Pro'

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Anyone old enough to remember when the New York Nets regaled the Nassau Coliseum by doing everything with a red-white-and-blue basketball short of boiling it for breakfast can appreciate the comedic possibilities to be mined from the American Basketball Association.

Those kitschy-ugly uniforms alone screamed "1970s" as loudly as leisure suits and Pet Rocks. And while mile-high Afros have...

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