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About Joe Newman (basketball)
- The American Basketball Association (ABA) is an American semi-professional men's basketball minor league that was founded in 1999.The ABA has teams based in the United States and previously had international teams based in Canada and Mexico.
- In the past, there were traveling teams from countries such as Australia and Japan who played in the ABA.
- Additionally, there were players from other countries that were on a U.S.
- team to showcase other talented athletes in the country. The current ABA bears no relation to the original American Basketball Association (1967–1976) that was considered a major league, and merged with the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1976.
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