No Team, No Ticket Sales, but Plenty of Cash - Former A.B.A. Owners Ozzie and Daniel Silna Earn Millions From N.B.A.
[quote] For years, it was an underappreciated wrinkle in the historic deal that merged the established National Basketball Association and the upstart American Basketball Association in 1976. The owners of the Spirits of St. Louis agreed to be paid a small fraction of the N.B.A.