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May 18, 2020 - New Feature
Grizzled GM Basketball has now added the American Basketball League (ABL) which was started in 1925. Aside from two years during the peak of the Great Depression in 1931-33, it operated until 1953. Ultimately the NBA did surpass it, but in Grizzled GM Basketball it just becomes the NBA for now.
Scheduling and who was even in the ABL was constantly in flux. I've given it a 35 game schedule which eventually expands to 72 and then 82 as it becomes the NBA.
Teams in the ABL were also constantly coming and going from the league (even mid season). A lot of teams back then were like the Harlem Globetrotters. They just played whoever they wanted. Many also did not survive very long. What I did was take 8 of the top teams through the league's history to use. The teams are: