Oakland Oaks 1969 ABA Champions highlights

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Miscellaneous video pertaining to the Oakland Oaks 1968-69 ABA Championship

At 0:08, Oaks manager Alex Hannum offers views connected the challenges his squad faces successful the finals against the Indiana Pacers, including defending MVP halfway Mel Daniels. He goes connected to speech astir the further situation of relying connected reserve players successful the lack of injured Oakland superstar Rick Barry. The “Warren” helium references is Warren Armstrong (later Jabali), who was the 1969 ABA Rookie of the Year, and would spell connected to beryllium the Finals MVP. Larry Brown (later a good known NCAA and NBA coach) was a archetypal squad all-star defender that season; Doug Moe was a second-team enactment astatine forward. Hannum himself was named Coach of the Year, portion Barry was besides a 1st squad enactment contempt lone playing 35 games that year, and not having played since January (34.0 pts/9.4 rebs per game)

(Note: Hannum’s notation to “recent failures” successful signing assemblage draught picks (0:21) refers to the ABA’s precocious failing to motion UCLA prima Lew Alcindor…now known arsenic Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. See much astir that here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gt5l3WHV-bI)

1:35 shows little footage from the deciding 5th game, which was 1 by the Oaks, 135-131, earlier a location assemblage of 6,340–about doubly the accustomed average. The squad past rushes the level to observe the triumph (2:07), including Barry (#24)(2:21), who was successful azygous connected the seat contempt his genu injury

Coach Hannum past offers immoderate insights astir the rubric (2:25)–the “wire” helium references was a telegram challenging the NBA champion Boston Celtics instantly aft the game; this is wherefore Hannum says determination is nary “world champion” until some leagues play each different (note: Hannum had coached an NBA champion 2 seasons earlier with the Philadelphia 76ers). His “dismal start” references the team’s inaugural run the twelvemonth before, which is discussed below

At 3:29, Barry offers immoderate insights

The 1969 rubric was a singular turnaround for the Oaks, who finished a miserable 22-56 the twelvemonth earlier nether manager Bruce Hale (ranked arsenic the 2nd worst nonrecreational play of each clip according to the Elo Rating System). Much much had been expected from Oakland, due to the fact that they had poached Barry from the NBA; however, due to the fact that of the “option clause” successful NBA contracts, helium was required to beryllium retired the season. The Oaks–owned by ABA co-founder Dennis Murphy, S. Kenneth Davidson, and vocalist Pat Boone–struggled financially adjacent with the title. Due to assorted underhanded moves by Davidson, Boone was saddled with the franchise each connected his own–along with astir $2.5 cardinal successful debt

Thus, erstwhile Earl Foreman offered to acquisition the defending champions successful August 1969 by assuming the debt, Boone was much than blessed to sell. Foreman past moved the squad to Washington, D.C., playing 1 twelvemonth arsenic the Caps earlier moving the adjacent twelvemonth to go a “regional franchise”–the Virginia Squires. The Squires would past to play the ABA’s past play (1975-76), but folded earlier being portion of the NBA merger/buyout package

(Footage is courtesy of the KPIX-TV video archives)

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