| The leaders of train gained three national | | | | first Pacer signed when the TEAM was created |
| championships of aba and reached the round | | | | and one of the key players in the Pacers' |
| title in five the nine seasons when the | | | | three ABA championships. He died of cancer in |
| league existed. When the aba yielded in 1976, | | | | 1997. (File photograph 1971) In the 1960s and |
| the leaders of train made a difficult | | | | early 1970s, the Pacers were the dominating |
| transition to national association from | | | | TEAM in the old American Basketball |
| basketball. The insolvency of survival only | | | | Association. The Pacers won national three |
| by a telethon the leaders of train rebuilt, | | | | ABA championships and reached the title round |
| adapted and emerged in the Nineties like | | | | in five of the nine let us seasons the league |
| championship-contractual concession of | | | | existed. When the ABA folded in 1976, the |
| leaders of train of team. | | | | Pacers made has difficult transition to the |
| | | | National Basketball Association. Surviving |
| The started as a founder member of the aba in | | | | insolvency only through has telethon the |
| 1967 when a group of eight businessmen | | | | Pacers rebuilt, adapted and emerged in the |
| invested some thousand dollars the part. The | | | | 1990s have has championship-contending team. |
| first coach of leaders of train was Larry | | | | |
| Staverman and the first player signed by the | | | | The Pacers frankness began have has charter |
| team was brown of Roger. A legend of court of | | | | member of the ABA in 1967 when has group of |
| play of New York City of Brooklyn, the | | | | eight businessmen invested has few thousand |
| promising career of brown was stopped during | | | | dollars apiece. The first Pacers coach was |
| its year of first-year student at the | | | | Larry Staverman and the first player signed |
| university of Dayton because of its | | | | by the TEAM was Roger Brown. In New York City |
| association with a local player. The brown | | | | playground legend from Brooklyn, Brown S |
| one did not never play a game of university | | | | promising career was halted during his |
| of varsity and was prohibited by the NBA. the | | | | freshman year At the University of Dayton |
| "Oscar Robertson indicated to me to go in | | | | because of his association with has local |
| Dayton and to find the brown one of Roger," | | | | gambler. Brown never played has varsity |
| Mike Storen, the first general manager of the | | | | college game and was banned by the NBA. |
| leaders of train, pointed out later. Storen | | | | "Oscar Robertson told me to go to Dayton and |
| found to work the night shift to a factory of | | | | find Roger Brown," Mike Storen, the Pacers' |
| General Motors and to play the sporting ball | | | | first general manager, later recalled. |
| of amateur of the trade unions when the aba | | | | |
| gave him the new life. Already 25, brown | | | | Storen found him working the night shift At |
| Indiana carried out in marking that the first | | | | has General Motors factory and playing |
| season with 19.6 averages. Other leaders of | | | | Amateur Athletic Union ball when the ABA gave |
| train of first-season included Bob Netolicky | | | | him new life. Already 25, Brown led Indiana |
| and Freddie Lewis. | | | | in scoring that first season with has 19.6 |
| | | | average. Other first-season Pacers included |
| The team finished 38-40. Before the second | | | | Bob Netolicky and Freddie Lewis. The TEAM |
| season the leaders of train acquired mels | | | | finished 38-40. Before the second season the |
| Daniels, 6 a center of foot 9. After a slow | | | | Pacers acquired Mel Daniels, has 6 foot 9 |
| beginning Staverman was replaced with Bob | | | | center. After has slow fox trot start |
| Leonard "smoothes" nine plays in the season. | | | | Staverman was replaced with Bob "Slick" |
| The leaders of train reached the first time | | | | Leonard nine games into the season. The |
| the finales of aba in the season 1968-69, but | | | | Pacers first reached Final the ABA in the |
| lost with the oaks of Oakland, 4-1.Roger "The | | | | 1968-69 season, goal lost to the Oakland |
| Rajah" Brown was has 6 foot 5 forward, the | | | | Oaks, 4-1. |