在1976年夏天,有两件事是举世瞩目的:其一是加拿大蒙特利尔奥运会的成功举办,其二是美国ABA联盟与NBA联盟在历时三个月的艰苦谈判后终于完成了合并。ABA联盟在此次谈判过程中聘请了反托拉斯法(即反垄断)的专家律师弗雷德·弗鲁斯,他与当时的NBA联盟总裁助理大卫·斯特恩进行了一系列世界上最为艰苦的商务谈判会议,这让两个联盟的合并过程变得动荡曲折。 In the summer of 1976, two things caught the attention of the world: one was the successful hosting of the Montreal Olympic Games in Canada, and the other was that the ABA alliance with the NBA finally completed the merger after three months of hard negotiations. The ABA consortium hired Fred Traus, an antitrust (or antitrust) specialist attorney during the negotiation. He and David Stern, then president of the NBA Union, conducted a series of experiments in the world The hard-fought business negotiation meeting made turmoil in the merger of the two alliances.