Vintage Spalding Official NBA game ball Larry O'brien

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This ball has the Larry O'Brien endorsement. It has never been used. From a collector. Leather and mint. He was appointed in 1975 by the National Basketball Association to serve nationally as its commissioner, w he directed the successful ABA-NBA merger that brought the American Basketball Association into the NBA, negotiated television-broadcast agreements with CBS Television, and saw game attendance increase significantly. He continued this service through 1984. The NBA Championship Trophy was renamed in 1984 the Larry O'Brien NBA Championship Trophy in honor of his service to the sport of basketball.However, his league was troubled by public relations issues through his tenure, especially after the merger. He was generally pushed by his staff into many of his decisions, most notably by the current commissioner, David Stern. Many consider Stern the driving force behind the television contracts with CBS and rise in game attendance, as well as several crucial issues that predicated the rise of the NBA in the early 1980s.[3]O'Brien was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, located in his birthplace, Springfield, Massachusetts

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