Longtime team trainer Lloyd ‘Pink’ Gardner shares never-before-told stories from the Kentucky Colonels’ run in the American Basketball Association, co-written with Gary P. West, covering the Louisville-based franchise’s colorful owners, wild trades, and its 1975 world championship.
The book traces the rise and abrupt end of a team that showcased stars like Artis Gilmore, Dan Issel, and Louie Dampier, packed Freedom Hall, and vanished when the NBA-ABA merger left Louisville without a franchise.
Published 2011
352 pages