Angelo Drossos (October 31, 1928 – January 9, 1997) was the owner of the
San Antonio Spurs
The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio. The Spurs compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Western Conference Southwest Division. The team plays its home ...
basketball
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team from 1973 to 1988, from its time in the
American Basketball Association through the
ABA-NBA merger and into its years in the
National Basketball Association
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. Drossos received the
NBA Executive of the Year Award in 1978 and was instrumental in bringing the
three-point field goal
A three-point field goal (also 3-pointer, three, or trey) is a field goal in a basketball game made from beyond the three-point line, a designated arc surrounding the basket. A successful attempt is worth three points, in contrast to the two poi ...
to the NBA. He died at age 68 in 1997
after battling
supranuclear palsy.
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1928 births
1997 deaths
American Basketball Association executives
National Basketball Association executives
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20th-century American businesspeople
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