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Interview with ABA Pacers superstar Bob Netolicky

Happy Holidays! We have concluded an unreal season 2. We wanted to take a holiday break and use this episode to thank all of the incredible guests that we have had this year. It has been an incredible ride, charting in over 20 different countries and had the honor of learning from some incredible guests and have built some life long friendships.In this episode, Zach and Eric talk about each episode in order and share some of their favorite clips from each episode. Be sure to support our guests businesses, website, foundations etc for the holidays. They have been so gracious with their time and shared incredible stories with us. We are FOREVER grateful for their time.Get ready for Season 3!Big Thanks to the following - Season 2-Jeff Fryer - LMU StarPatrick Ewing Jr - NBAAnthony Prince - Father of Taurean PrinceTravis Reed - UCLA, LBSU & ProAngel Reyes - College HooperTJ Fredette - Brother of Jimmer FredetteTony Farmer - NBAMatthew Maurer - NBA Draft HistorianRobin Schreiber - Dance Cam MomDino Radja - NBA & HOFJonathan Tavernari - BYU & ProJason McElwain - Coach & Inspirational GuestRicky Pierce - NBA Allstar & 2x Sixth Man of YearOscar Schmidt - Hall of FamerJordan Lewis III - College HooperMatt Doherty - Coach, Author & NCAA ChampionLarry Owens - NBA, TBT & ORU AlumniKane Ma - Former UNC Player & ProPaul Hiepler - Abilene Christian PlayerMike Illiano - GM of Team 23Chris Herren - NBA & Wellness AdvocateDr. Nick Elam - Creator of the Elam EndingJulius Page - Pitt Star & ProChris Thomas - GM of Primetime PlayersEric Devendorf - Syracuse Star, TBT Champ & ProTom Van Arsdale - 2x NBA AllstarDick Van Arsdale - NBA AllstarJoseph Forte - NBAJerod Haase - South Tahoe Legend & Stanford Head CoachCarl Krauser - Pitt Star & ProMarquis Marshall - Utah ValorChris Jones - Utah ValorPaul Shirley - NBA & AuthorChris Ott - Cal Poly & Mercer PlayerVon Wafer - NBAChris Anstey - NBARicky Price - Duke Star & ProDarryl McDonald - NBL & NYC LegendKeith "The Boss" Closs - NBAPriest Lauderdale - NBAJerod Ward - Michigan , Overseas & NBADouglas Wrenn El - UConn, Washington & ProJelani Gardner - Cal, Pepperdine & ProLenard Copeland - NBA & NBL LegendMarc Jackson - NBAJermaine Barnes - Pro Hooper & Silver MedalistKen Mink - 73 Year Old College PlayerDan Stoddard - 40 Year Old College PlayerMarcus Liberty - NBAKelvin Davis - The Oldest Rookie & 62 Year Old NBA TryoutSean J. McCaw - Author & ProBob Netolicky - 4x ABA Allstar & 2x ABA ChampionTodd Okeson - Nevada Star, Pro & CoachRicky Sobers - NBAKenny Dennard - NBABen Guest - Championship Coach & Author 

We got Neto! Pacers & ABA legend Bob Netolicky joins us on the podcast today to share his story & all of his amazing experiences from an incredible era of basketball. You do NOT want to miss out on this one!Bob Netolicky was an All-American selection at Drake University. He was later drafted in both the NBA & ABA. Netolicky chose the ABA route & played in the very first ABA season. He went on to earn 4 ABA Allstar selections, 2 ABA championships with the Indiana Pacers, & was named to the All-Time ABA Team. Neto shares great stories about his introduction to basketball, Drake, the ABA & NBA draft process, Rodger Brown, Mel Daniels, Slick Leonard, Neto's bar, exotic pets, the impact of both the Pacers & ABA, his book, Dropping Dimes Foundation & MUCH more!BIG thanks to Bob Netolicky for taking the time to share his experiences with us. This was truly an honor & one of the more fun podcasts we have done. There are so many amazing stories & laughs shared in this one & we know any hoop fan will enjoy & learn something new from this one.Thanks Bob Netolicky!Please be sure to go to Lanasports.com & use the PR Code (coupon code) “NETO24” on the purchase of the original ABA Basketball for $24.00 off! No better gift before the holidays than the beautiful, official ABA Basketball. Also- check out wechangedthegame.com to support & purchase Bob's book titled “We Changed The Game.” Support the Dropping Dimes Foundation at Droppingdimes.org. It's an incredible foundation & the Advisory board is Comprised of hall of fame and American Basketball Association legends, the Dropping Dimes Foundation Advisory Board helps direct the assistance provided to those facing difficult times.More amazing retro items at BobandTomStore.comYou can find this episode on Apple, Spotify or any source for podcasts.Follow us on social media for news, updates and highlight reels!Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/notin.myhouse.79Instagram- @Not_in_my_house_podcastTwitter - @NOTINMYHOUSEpc

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American Basketball Association legend Bob Netolicky joins the show (36:15) this week to share fun stories about the ABA and his basketball career. We also talk about the great work Dropping Dimes.org is doing with retired ABA players and we talk autographs and TTM with Bob. We also have our regular features Baker’s Dozen (6:40), Making the Grade (16:10), the Vern Rapp Minute (21:20) and review our TTM returns for the week (24:35). Please send feedback to us at our text line 978-729-0662 or email us at ttmcast@yahoo.com

In this week's episode, Kyle addresses the passing of WMP guest and Indiana legend Bobby "Slick" Leonard. In the second segment, he chats with former Pacer Bob Netolicky about his playing career, Slick Leonard, Topps basketball cards, and the Dropping Dimes Foundation. *The Bob Netolicky segment was recorded last week, before Slick's passing.*

In this episode, we take a look at Purdue basketball maturing at just the right time, the NHL's debacle at Lake Tahoe, Sidney Crosby not giving his girlfriend a ring, and Bob Netolicky.

To mark the start of the new season for the Indiana Pacers , we will time travel more than 50 years back to explore the history that led up to their debut game against the Kentucky Colonels in the Coliseum at the State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis. The new team was part of an upstart professional league, the colorful American Basketball Association (ABA), and before any of the players had even scored a point, much civic, social and sports history already had been made. Two previous pro basketball teams based in Indianapolis had died. One of them, the Indianapolis Olympians, went down in scandal. Efforts at putting together the Pacers team had met a variety of challenges. Unsuccessful attempts had been made to woo household names in Indiana - including former high school basketball sensations Oscar Robertson and identical twins Tom and Dick Van Arsdale - to be part of the Pacers organization. And some of the African-American players who had been signed to the team encountered challenges finding housing in the Hoosier capital due to the racial discrimination that was unfortunately common at the time. To explore the rich history of the early era of the Pacers - including the years immediately following the team's first game in 1967 - Nelson is joined in studio by veteran sports journalist Mark Montieth in this encore of a show originally broadcast in 2017. As a boy growing up in Indy, Mark listened to the debut Pacers game on the radio. He is the author of  Reborn: The Pacers and the Return of Pro Basketball to Indianapolis (Cardinal Publishing Group). In the early 1960s, Mark writes, the Hoosier capital was growing, "yet it had no national sports identity beyond the Indianapolis 500." Civic and business leaders wanted to change that. The result was a team that won three national championships in the ABA, which eventually merged with the National Basketball Association (NBA). As a sportswriter at The Indianapolis Star, Mark Montieth covered the Pacers for 12 of the team's NBA seasons. Early games in the ABA often were raucous, and fighting among the players was common. Several of the early Pacers were regarded as wild characters, including fan favorites Bob Netolicky and Mel Daniels. The starting salaries of early Pacers players? According to Reborn, one aspiring Pacer signed a contract for $10,000 (that would be about $78,000 in 2020), with the possibility of a $2,000 bonus. The ABA was distinctive for its red, white and blue basketball and the introduction to the pro game of the 3-point shot. "The Pacers were born and raised in a league and an era unlike any other in the history of professional sports," Mark writes in Reborn. The future of the team and of the league were considered so uncertain that Bobby "Slick" Leonard (the former high school basketball star from Terre Haute who later coached the Pacers to the national championships) was so wary of giving up a secure job as a salesman for class rings that he didn't initially seek the coaching opportunity. Some early players were essentially being offered second chances to achieve hoops glory. In high school and college, Netolicky was "more motivated to have fun than to play basketball" and had exotic pets such as an ocelot and a boa constrictor, according to Reborn. His eventual teammate Roger Brown had taken a factory job on the night shift after his links to a gambler ended opportunities as a player in college and with the NBA. Other Pacers history facts: Although Reborn indicates that it remains unclear who originally suggested "Pacers" as the team's name, initial announcements referenced the harness horse racetrack at the Fairgrounds near the Pacers' home court at the Coliseum (a pacer is a type of racehorse). Initial reports also referred to the Indy 500, which features a pace car. The team's colors, blue and gold, have remained the same for 50 years and are a tribute to the state's official colors - as seen, for example, on the state flag. Seven of the 12 players on the starting roster were African American. "That amounted to a bold statement in 1967," Mark writes in Reborn. "Most NBA teams were adhering to an unspoken color barrier that kept rosters half-white at the bare minimum. Even the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers, representing the nation's largest and most cosmopolitan cities, conformed."

Erwin Cox is our guest and he shares his story about a life in athletics, from Kokomo Wildkat thru his career as a Drake Bulldog! The Cox family was 9 siblings deep and the athletic talent was amazing! Erwin does an amazing job sharing his story from little league baseball, dishing the ball to Bob Netolicky at Drake and his stories of high school sports in Kokomo! It was neat to hear first hand accounts and also what legendary coach Joe Platt meant and how he coached!   Myra Fleener: [about Jimmy Chitwood] You know, a basketball hero around here is treated like a god, er, uh, how can he ever find out what he can really do? I don't want this to be the high point of his life. I've seen them, the real sad ones. They sit around the rest of their lives talking about the glory days when they were seventeen years old.Coach Norman Dale: You know, most people would kill... to be treated like a god, just for a few moments. This is Erwin Cox's moments....

Tom Griswold hosts a special podcast with American Basketball Association (ABA) legend Bob Netolicky and sportswriter Robin Miller on the history of the ABA and their new book "We Changed the Game." Support the show.

Local legends Robin Miller and Bob Netolicky unexpectedly drop by the studio and the guys play Buy it or Bull!.

Go to Droppingdimes.org and help those who changed the game (ABA)! 4 time All-Star and 2X ABA Champion Bob Netolicky and Co-Founder of DroppingDimes attorney Scott Tarter discuss the plight of  ABA players in need. You can also buy an outstanding book called "We Changed The Game" at Hilton Publishing or Wechangedthegame.com.

Four-time American Basketball Association All-Star Bob Netolicky and former Indianapolis Star sportswriter Robin Miller join host Tim Hanlon to share some of their most memorable (and heretofore untold) first-person accounts of playing and traveling with the thrice-ABA-champion Indiana Pacers – and promote their upcoming book We Changed the Game, penned in partnership with original team co-founder/owner Dick Tinkham. Despite three championships, five finals appearances and the strongest fan base in the league, the Pacers – and by extension, the ABA itself – barely survived a number of remarkably close calls and dire financial situations during their collective nine-year pre-NBA-merger existence that nearly sank both the franchise and the league more than once.  Yet, in the end, the team and the city improbably (and inspirationally) rallied together to keep the team (and the league) afloat – to ultimately become one of the four surviving franchises in the landmark merger with the National Basketball Association in 1976, as well as a source of deep, lasting and transformational civic pride for the city of Indianapolis that lasts to this day. In this revealing, eyebrow-raising conversation, Miller and “Neto” set the record straight on numerous Pacer and ABA mythologies, and wax nostalgically authoritative on what really happened during the first nine years of the team’s pre-NBA existence. We appreciate SportsHistoryCollectibles.com, Podfly and Audible for their support of this episode!

Veteran sportswriter Mark Montieth (Reborn: The Pacers and the Return of Pro Basketball to Indianapolis) returns to the podcast (Episode #41) to help complete the story of the Indiana Pacers’ nine-year sojourn through the American Basketball Association – including its shaky transition into a merger-expanded NBA in 1976.   Arguably the most stable and successful franchise in the ABA’s short but colorful history, the franchise nearly collapsed under its own weight after its inaugural National Basketball Association campaign – if not for a hastily arranged 1977 Independence Day weekend telethon fundraiser devised by head coach Bobby “Slick” Leonard and his wife Nancy, that miraculously saved the team and cemented its place in the Indianapolis cultural landscape. Along the way, however, the ABA Pacers made indelible marks on both the city and the basketball establishment, including: barn-burning rivalries (especially with the Kentucky Colonels and Utah Stars); stellar local collegiate talent signings (including Purdue All-American and Sports Illustrated high school cover boy Rick Mount, and Indiana University standout and eventual Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer George McGinnis); a downtown-revitalizing, franchise-stabilizing, state-of-the-art Market Square Arena; and the acrobatic, yet distinctively ‘fro’ed Darnell “Dr. Dunk” Hillman, who just may have been able to leap high enough to nab quarters off the top of backboards, according to sportswriter legend. Plus: Pacers general manager Mike Storen answers his own letter; Bob Netolicky secures a trade, then begs to come back; the WHA hockey Racers nearly sink the franchise; and why Indianapolis' Pacers made the NBA cut - but Louisville's Colonels did not. Thank you Podfly, Sports History Collectibles and Audible for supporting the show!

Long-time Indianapolis pro hoops beat reporter Mark Montieth (Reborn: The Pacers and the Return of Pro Basketball to Indianapolis) joins host Tim Hanlon to delve into the intriguing story behind the efforts of late-1960s civic leaders to re-establish a top-tier professional franchise in the capital city of basketball-mad Indiana after a curious 14-year absence.    One of eleven charter franchises in 1967’s upstart American Basketball Association, the Indiana Pacers literally and figuratively “set the pace” early and often during the league’s nine-year existence – amassing three ABA championships, five finals appearances, and a dazzling array of All-Star talent including the likes of Freddie Lewis, Bob Netolicky, Billy Knight, and future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees Roger Brown, Mel Daniels, George McGinnis, and head coach Bob “Slick” Leonard. In a league synonymous with wild games, outsized personalities and vagabond franchises, the Pacers were a uniquely steady constant on the court, in the stands and with the local Indianapolis community – which later rewarded them with a downtown-transforming arena of their own in 1974, and ultimately, helped bolster their case to become one of only four ABA clubs to be included in the post-merger National Basketball Association in 1976. Our thanks to Sports History Collectibles, Audible and Podfly for their sponsorship of this week’s episode!

The NBA has dropped the ball on taking care of those who changed the game - The ABA! Take a listen to how the NBA doesn't want to take care of those who made the NBA what it is today! Also, click the link below to read the Petition sent to the NBA and the link below that is an outstanding article by Gregg Doyel of the Indianapolis Star on the plight of this retired American Basketball Association players. I'm very passionate about this issue and hope you'll show your support to a public outcry for the NBA an 8 Billion dollar industry to fix this situation....     http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/columnists/gregg-doyel/2017/05/13/doyel-nba-can-do-right-aba-pioneers/319446001/     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B82n3e_6IndSU2toTW1PaUNsX0k/view  

We discuss the great Indiana Pacers teams of the 1970s that won three ABA championships with Pacers.com writer and historian Mark Montieth (markmontieth.com) in Over and Back’s latest episode in its Basketball Mysteries of the 1970s series. Topics discussed include: how the team was built around Roger Brown, Freddie Lewis, Bob Netolicky and Mel Daniels, how coach Slick Leonard got the team to play together, a wild brawl vs. the Kentucky Colonels in 1969, rallying down from a 3-1 deficit, their disappointment in the 1969 Finals and vindication in 1970, why things worked out for Billy Keller and not for the more heralded Rick Mount, Brown and Rick Barry dueling in the 1972 Finals, Warren Jabali tearing off a teammate’s underwear, adding young superstar George McGinnis to an already established great team, what Darnell Hillman brought to the team, how the 1973 team succeeded despite some unhappiness in the locker room, Daniels and the Pacers’ love of the cowboy lifestyle including bringing guns to the locker room, the Pacers nearly drafting Larry Bird ahead of the Celtics, a Pacers promotion hanging the refs in effigy, how the team nearly went broke in 1975, and McGinnis carrying a underdog 1975 team to its last ABA Finals. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The life of an ABA player is discussed in the third episode of the Over and Back Classic NBA podcast’s summer series — Basketball Mysteries of the 1970s. Jason Mann is joined by Indiana Pacers great Bob Netolicky, who played all 9 seasons in the ABA, and Ted Green, who has produced documentaries on Pacers legend Roger Brown and coach Slick Leonard. Discussion topics include: How the ABA forced innovations into the pro basketball world, including bigger salaries and a wide-open style of play; on- and off-court highlights of the Pacers from 1969 through 1975, where they won three ABA championships and appeared in five Finals; the excellence of Roger Brown and how he’s been forgotten among the great small forwards of all-time; tales from Netolicky’s club in Indianapolis, including sneaking in an underaged Spencer Haywood and giving visiting players free beer the night before games; Slick Leonard’s legendary motivational tactics, including nearly attacking Neto with a hockey stock; how it felt to win a championship in 1970 after blowing it in 1969; why Netolicky was never tempted by the NBA; whether the ABA ever felt stable; and how the former ABA players have forged a deep brotherhood all these years later. Netolicky and Green are both part of the Dropping Dimes Foundation, which helps former ABA players who are dealing with financial distress. Find out more at https://droppingdimes.org/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.