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The NBA and the Spirits - Hoops Analyst -

Most basketball fans knows generally about this deal, namely that the owners of the Spirits were able to obtain a portion of NBA television ...

Two Regular Brothers Netted $800 Million From The NBA In ...

During the negotiations for the ABA-NBA merger, the Silnas made a crucial deal. They agreed to dissolve their team in exchange for a share of ...

Ozzie and Daniel Silna - Wikipedia

... owners of the American Basketball Association's Spirits of St. Louis and the lucrative deal cut to fold that team during the ABA-NBA merger. Brothers Ozzie ...

The family that made $800 million off the NBA, thanks to a contract ...

In 1976, owners of the former ABA team St Louis Spirits, Ozzie and Daniel Silna did not want include their team into the ABA-NBA merger.

Report: NBA finally reaches buyout deal with former ABA owners still ...

When the NBA and ABA merged in 1976 four teams came in the league — the Nets, Pacers, Spurs and Nuggets — while the Spirits of St. Louis were ...

WBD-NBA Suit Judge Settled $500 Million Deal With NBA

Cohen represented the Silna brothers, who previously owned the Spirits of St. Louis in the ABA. · The brothers netted more than $800 million long ...

Deal of a Lifetime: Brothers Dunk Huge NBA Dollars Without Team

This season, the Silnas would collect a reported $19 million ─ pushing their total NBA TV take to about $300 million ─ under a bargain they ...

NBA Settles Historic Dispute Over TV Money

The NBA offered the other franchises about $3 million each to fold. Daniel and Ozzie Silna, owners of the Spirits of St. Louis, held out.

The TV Deal the NBA Wishes It Had Not Made - Los Angeles Times

The money goes to brothers Ozzie and Dan Silna, co-owners of the long-forgotten ABA team, the Spirits of St. Louis. Advertisement. Thirty ...

ESPN.com: NBA - Spirit of ABA deal lives on

Ozzie Silna said he'd only do it for $8 million spread out over five years. With $8 million from TV revenue already in the Silnas' pocket, another buyout ...

Spirits of St. Louis | SLAM

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1 NBA MEDIA RIGHTS SPIRITED AWAY: THE SILNA BROTHERS ...

Acquisition and Beginnings in St. Louis. The owners of the Spirits, brothers Dan and Ozzie Silna and their lawyer Donald. Schupak, had aspired to own a ...

NBA Still Paying Owners Of Defunct ABA Team | Only A Game - WBUR

Daniel and Ozzie Silna have earned about $255 million in NBA TV revenues in the last 32 years—and they don't even own a team.

How Two Unknown Brothers Squeezed $800 Million Out Of The ...

Back in 2007, the National Basketball Association struck a deal with ABC/ESPN and TNT in which the television networks agreed to pay $7.4 ...

The NBA Finally Puts An End To The Greatest Sports Deal Of All Time

ABA officials, wanting to tidy up the merger, agreed to the following: the Silnas would be paid for any Spirits players drafted by NBA teams, an ...

Payout May Come for an A.B.A. Team That Is Long Gone

A deal negotiated with the N.B.A. and four former American Basketball ... Spirits of St. Louis in the defunct American Basketball ...

Spirits of St. Louis owner Ozzie Silna, who made incredible deal in ...

Louis owner Ozzie Silna, who made incredible deal in NBA-ABA merger, dies ... NBA's annual TV revenue for as long as the NBA was around. The ...

The Silna Brothers' $800 Million NBA Deal Explained - TikTok

So they bought the Carolina Cougars in the ABA. for one million dollars. They moved the team to ST. Louis and changed their name to the spirits.

Ozzie Silna, Savvy A.B.A Owner Who Got Rich Off the N.B.A., Dies at ...

The league failed in its efforts to buy out the Silnas, if only to let the Nets, the Pacers, the Spurs and the Nuggets keep all their television ...